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ALSO CALLED: Identity Management (Security), Identity Management and Access Control, IM (Identity Management), Identity Management Security, Management of Identity, User ID Management, Identity and Access Management, ID Management, and IAM
DEFINITION: Identity management (ID management) is a broad administrative area that deals with identifying individuals in a system (such as a country, a network, or an enterprise) and controlling their access to resources within that system by associating user rights and restrictions with the established identity. The driver licensing system is a simple example of identity management: drivers are identified by  … 
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Identity Management White Papers (View All Report Types)
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Confidence in Commerce: Enabling e-banking and online services with two-factor authentication
sponsored by SafeNet, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Many financial organizations are looking to implement proactive security measures to combat identity theft. Strong authentication – a security method which employs the use of more than one factor to identify users accessing private networks and applications – is among today’s leading choices.
Posted: 02 Nov 2009 | Published: 02 Nov 2009


IBM Buyers Guide
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This buyer's guide outlines features and capabilities that comprise an effective SIEM solution, discusses the benefits of each capability, and provides checklists to help you evaluate whether or not a particular vendor's solutions can address each of these areas.
Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009


Realizing Business Value with Identity and Access Management
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how IBM identity and access management solutions help organizations realize business value through a centralized, automated identity and access management infrastructure.
Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009


Secure and Compliant Collaboration and Access
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: As part of its comprehensive security framework, IBM offers a broad, unified array of integrated access authorization and identity management solutions that enable organizations to secure their collaboration and access processes in alignment with their overall business needs.
Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009


We Have Met the Enemy, and He is Us
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Organizations are being forced to move towards identity-based access lifecycle management tools in order to support IT agility and flexibility, safely empower staff, meet compliance requirements, and cope with the rapid evolution of data centers and core systems.
Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009


Deliver Effective Governance for Identity and Access Management
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Organizations should consider a thorough approach to IAM governance that meets the requirements of discovering, documenting and analyzing user access; establishing a process for user access governance; ensuring that constraints help manage business conflict; enforcing policies; and continuous monitoring.
Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009


A Process-based Approach to Protecting Privileged Accounts & Meeting Regulatory Compliance
sponsored by BeyondTrust Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines a sound, process-based approach to protecting the critical privileged accounts found in most applications, databases, and infrastructure devices throughout the enterprise. This approach integrates features like automated password resets and management workflows, secure storage of credentials, and a sealed operating system.
Posted: 21 Oct 2009 | Published: 21 Oct 2009


Enabling Secure B2B Collaboration: Cloud-Based Authentication for Next-Generation Extranets
sponsored by VeriSign, Inc
WHITE PAPER: Online communities, social networks, and global sharing of rich media are just a few of the new beyond-traditional extranet technologies being adopted today. This paper shows how to implement greater security for new social media enabled extranets, and how in-the-cloud services combined with mobile credentials enable two-factor authentication.
Posted: 06 Oct 2009 | Published: 06 Oct 2009


Solve Five Key IT Security Challenges with Cloud-Based Authentication
sponsored by VeriSign, Inc
WHITE PAPER: This paper shows how to implement greater security for data and applications using two-factor authentication. It demonstrates how a cloud-based solution for two-factor authentication delivers a high level of security with minimal user impact and protects against unauthorized access. Read on to learn more.
Posted: 06 Oct 2009 | Published: 06 Oct 2009


Top Eight Do's and Don'ts of Managing Access Control in the Windows/AD Environment
sponsored by Quest Software
WHITE PAPER: This tech brief presents eight recommendations to help you proactively address the difficulties of access control in a Microsoft-centric environment, and avoid the common pitfalls, risks and costs.
Posted: 02 Oct 2009 | Published: 02 Oct 2009


Enterprise Single Sign-On The Holy Grail of Computing
sponsored by Quest Software
WHITE PAPER: In today's enterprise, IT managers are faced with the growing challenge of keeping track of multiple passwords and system identities. In this document, we'll discuss how Quest approaches enterprise single sign-on and a unique solution that addresses nearly all facets of the challenges.
Posted: 02 Oct 2009 | Published: 02 Oct 2009


Online Security: A Human Perspective
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper summarizes the salient findings from a research into online consumer behavior and outlines the proper mechanisms for introducing security measures to streamline security and improve end-user experience by taking into account consumers’ attitudes and understanding of online security.
Posted: 25 Sep 2009 | Published: 25 Sep 2009


Buyer’s Guide for Enterprise Single Sign-On
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper offers a thorough checklist that should enable potential ESSO implementers to deploy the right ESSO solution which should help eliminate sign-on problems, reduce helpdesk costs, maximize user productivity, strengthen security, simplify administration and accelerate regulatory compliance.
Posted: 25 Sep 2009 | Published: 25 Sep 2009


Security in the Call Center: Verifying Customer Identities without the Inconvenience
sponsored by RSA, The Security Division of EMC
WHITE PAPER: Is securing the Call Center possible without impacting the customer experience? This paper discusses the advantages and benefits of using knowledge-based authentication (KBA) to bolster Call Center security over other solutions.
Posted: 25 Sep 2009 | Published: 25 Sep 2009


Internet Gambling Sites: Expose Fraud Rings and Stop Repeat Offenders with Device Reputation
sponsored by iovation, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper will help you understand what new and innovative techniques can be used to combat online fraud and abuse, and how online casinos can realize a true return on investment by reducing losses from fraud exposure and increasing operational efficiency within the fraud detection process.
Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 Sep 2009


Introduction to XML Gateways: Best Practices, Benefits & Requirements
sponsored by Forum Systems
WHITE PAPER: This paper will give you an overview of enabling virtualization and control, enforcing data-level privacy and integrity and control and audit information flow. You'll learn the best practices, benefits and requirements of XML Gateways.
Posted: 11 Sep 2009 | Published: 11 Sep 2009


Under Siege: Protecting the Gateway and Network From Predators Requires New Layers of Security
sponsored by CDW Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Threats today burrow deep in computers and hide. Check out this paper to learn the latest research findings related to data breaches and what you can do to protect your organization's data and reputation.
Posted: 08 Sep 2009 | Published: 08 Sep 2009


Protecting Data from the Cyber Theft Pandemic
sponsored by FireEye
WHITE PAPER: Malware-related data breaches have reached pandemic proportions as criminals discover Internet crime is easy to commit, highly lucrative, and largely under-policed. Learn about advances in security technologies that use multi-phase heuristic and virtual machine analysis to detect and mitigate damages that result from malware-related data thefts.
Posted: 01 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Sep 2009


Massachusetts Data Protection Law: 201 CMR 17.00: Standards for the Protection of Personal Information of Residents of the Commonwealth
sponsored by Lumension
WHITE PAPER: To help mitigate the negative impacts of ID theft, Massachusetts passed a new law that requires any organization that "owns, licenses, stores, or maintains personal information about a resident of the Commonwealth" to follow a comprehensive set of information security requirements. Compliance is mandatory by January 2010.
Posted: 13 Aug 2009 | Published: 13 Aug 2009


Reinforce Business Objectives and Achieve ROI with Internet Identity Security
sponsored by Ping Identity Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how after deploying PingFederate or PingConnect your organization will yield a high return on investment and run more efficiently and will have distinct competitive advantage over companies that do not leverage Internet Identity Security Software.
Posted: 17 Jun 2009 | Published: 17 Jun 2009


Credit Issuers: Stop Application Fraud At The Source With Device Reputation
sponsored by iovation, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about new and innovative techniques and solutions can be used to combat fraud, and how you can realize a true return on investment by reducing losses from fraud exposure and increasing operational efficiency within your fraud prevention process.
Posted: 09 Jun 2009 | Published: 09 Jun 2009


Secure Internet Single Sign-On (SSO) 101
sponsored by Ping Identity Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Written for anyone interested in understanding how secure Internet SSO works, this white paper explores the limitations of current SSO implementations outside of a single security domain (including identity and access management systems and open source development) and introduces standalone secure Internet SSO as a solution.
Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 05 Jun 2009


Five Steps to Secure Internet Single Sign-On (SSO)
sponsored by Ping Identity Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes why and how any organization can implement secure Internet single sign-on, which provides for the portability and interoperability of identity information across organizational boundaries. Read this white paper to learn the five steps to secure internet single sign-on.
Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 05 Jun 2009


Strong data security to protect critical assets: A focus on security yields compliance for free
sponsored by Thales
WHITE PAPER: This paper offers thought leadership to help you address challenges surrounding information security and compliance issues. It will also introduce you to the value and importance of a hardware security module as a key part of any successful information security program.
Posted: 05 May 2009 | Published: 05 May 2009


Access Control Management-- A Wise Investment in a Down Economy
sponsored by FoxT
WHITE PAPER: This white paper will discuss the ROI that can be achieved with Access Management including reducing the risk of insider fraud; simplifying and maintaining security during mergers, acquisitions, and layoffs; and reducing audit and compliance costs.
Posted: 26 Mar 2009 | Published: 26 Mar 2009

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IDENTITY MANAGEMENT DEFINITION (continued): …  their license numbers and user specifications (such as "can not drive after dark") are linked to the identifying number. In an IT network, identity management software is used to automate administrative tasks, such as resetting user passwords. Enabling users to reset their own passwords can save significant money and resources, since a large percentage of help desk calls are password-related. Password synchronization (p-synch) enables a user to access resources across systems with a single password; a more advanced version called single signon enables synchronization across applications as well … 
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