History of Identity and Access Management
Chapter 1
...Always, with identity one organism is the receiver the other the signaler...
Chapter 2
...Pattern recognition theory establishes that signatures used for identification (identity) must be repeatable, distinct and difficult to reproduce...
Chapter 4
...Passwords or phrases, a proxy for identity, can be used at scale to assert identity...
Chapter 5
...encrypted content with some assertion of valid identity (something known exclusively or physical) permitted decode and access/authentication for information access or permission...
Chapter 6
..."After typing PASSWORD, the system turns off the printing mechanism...
Chapter 8
...In the early 1970's the algorithms for public key cryptography were invented...
Chapter 9
...The primary concern, was the appearance of Eve in the Bob and Alice archetype...
Chapter 10
Splintered Identity Management
...In the early 2000s, a hybrid between AES and public key algorithms (the two prevalent schemes) became the most accepted way for e-commerce operations to proceed...
Chapter 11
..companies have significant investments in at least one true and trusted authority for users (their directory). ..
Chapter 12
...Directory servers enabled the trust and deferral as they maintained the one true identity of user credentials common to many systems...
Chapter 13
..Just like HTML is a derivative of XML for building web pages, SAML is a derivative of XML for performing authentication...
Chapter 14
...When an application uses SAML for authentication, instead of the old-fashioned username/password model, the process is actually using “claims- based authentication”...
Chapter 15
The rise of Software as a Service (SaaS) vendors with cloud based knowledge repositories exacerbated the number of directories and methods for companies to hook-in authorized users...
Chapter 16
...Where simple passwords are an inadequate authentication method, authorities have created IT infrastructures for more rigorous proof required to confirm the identity of the parties involved in the communication to validate the authenticity of the information being transferred...
Chapter 17
...Access Management technologies and strategic approaches have shifted over the last two decades in response to the evolution of workplace technologies...The Origin of Identity What Identity Requires Identity Signals Identity Proxies Assertion of Identity Password As Identity Password Security Identity Encryption Identity Protection Splintered Identity Management Identity Access Management Single Sign On Standardization SAML Authentication Claims Based Identity Why SAML Became Prevalent PKI and Application Access UAM The Evolution of Access