Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Identity and Access Management (IAM) is the framework of policies, processes and tooling that lets an organization manage the lifecycle of human and machine identities and govern their access to applications, data and infrastructure. Core capabilities include identity provisioning and deprovisioning, authentication, authorization, single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, role and entitlement management, and audit logging. IAM is the backbone of zero-trust architectures because every access decision depends on a verified identity and its associated attributes. Weak IAM is a leading cause of breaches: stale accounts, excessive privileges, and unmanaged service identities are routinely abused by attackers.