Not about the technology
Identity management encompasses anything from people to processes to passwords.
01 November 2006
One thing it is definitely not about is the technology.
The concept of identity management, and the underlying technology that supports it, has been around since the late '90s. While a solution that takes care of user identity, security, provisioning and audit trails would seem to be a no-brainer, it hadn't taken off to a great degree - until recently.
Simply put, identity management, according to Wikipedia, is "the management of information (as held in a directory) which represents real-life identified items (users, devices, services, etc)".
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