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What is IAM?IAM stands for Identity and Access Management Its a system that stores, secures and manages all identities and defines access privileges. It ensures that the user is granted controlled access to applications or resources It let’s users login from many inbound flows, including:From any location On any network On any devices
What is AD FS?It stands for Active Directory Federation Services offered by Microsoft It works on Claim-based Authentication model – meaning, a claim of identity and access privileges made by a trusted party is analysed, verified of the origin and trusted by the receiver to give access to the original requestor.
What is SAML? Security Assertion Markup Language It’s an XML variant language used to encode security credentials and sharing those among parties across a network It is an open standard It describes framework that allows one computer to perform below security functions:Authentication : Determining that the users are who they claim to beAuthorization : Determining if users have the right to access certain systems of content Versions Current: SAML 3.0 Most Popular: SAML 2.0 Previous: SAML 1.1 Identity Provider:Performs authentication and authorization References:
