A human identity is a digital representation of an individual person — employee, contractor, partner, or customer — in an organization's identity system, used to.
Archives: Glossary Terms
HIPAA and Identity Security
HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) requires healthcare organizations to implement specific identity and access controls to protect Protected Health Information (PHI) — including.
Google Cloud Identity
Google Cloud Identity is Google's identity and access management service for GCP (Google Cloud Platform) — managing user identities, service accounts, IAM roles, and policies.
Generative AI and Identity Security
Generative AI introduces new identity security challenges and opportunities — from AI models needing their own identities and access controls, to AI being used both.
ForgeRock
ForgeRock (now part of Ping Identity) is an enterprise identity platform providing IAM, CIAM, and identity orchestration capabilities — known for its flexibility in handling.
Federated Identity
Federated identity is the linking of electronic identities across multiple security domains or organizations, allowing a user authenticated in one domain to access resources in.
External Account
An external account is a user account or identity managed by an external identity provider — such as a partner organization, contractor, or customer IdP.
Domain Controller
A Domain Controller (DC) is a server running Active Directory Domain Services that authenticates and authorizes users, computers, and services in a Windows domain —.
Device Identity
Device identity is a digital representation of a physical or virtual hardware device — laptop, server, phone, IoT sensor — that allows the device itself.
Decommissioning
Decommissioning is the process of retiring, deactivating, or shutting down IT systems, applications, service accounts, or identities that are no longer needed — ensuring associated.