Authorization and Entitlement Management

Management of user entitlements, credentials, and attributes. Tools and techniques for granting, managing, reviewing, revoking, and using entitlements. Authorization tools and techniques. Access Control. Identity and Access Management products. Web Access Management. Integration of authentication and authorization with directory services. Standards for access management, including XACML. Protocols for transmission of authorization attributes. Standards for advertisement of authorization policy. Integration of web access control with enterprise and mainframe authentication and authorization systems. Export and import of authorization policy in multi-domain and federated configurations.

• Entitlement management
• Authorization management
• Extensible Access Control Markup Language
• XACML
• WS-Policy
• Policy management
• Policy administration
• Authorization service

This topic relates to the Identity and Privacy coverage area - Identity Infrastructure Planning and building general-purpose infrastructure for managing and applying identity information, and supporting the digital identity lifecycle.

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