Identity management is defined as the management of individual identifiers, their authorization, authentication, permissions across or within systems and organizational boundaries with the objective of maximizing productivity and security. It also aims at reducing expenses, repetitive risks, expenses and other allied hazards. On similar lines, Identity and Access Management is a domain of IT security that deals with various aspects access management to a company’s internal network.

Certain Perspectives on Identity and Access Management

In the context of a real world scenario of engineering online systems, Identity and Access Management Systems can have three crucial perspectives. They are:

· The pure identity paradigm
This deals with management, creation and deletion of identities without any concerns on access or entitlements
· The user log in paradigm
This happens in the case of smart card access and its related data that is used by consumers to log on to a service
· The service paradigm
This refers to the system that offers role-based, customized, on-demand, online, multimedia content to users and their devices

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