What is identity management?
Everyone has a sense of self. In this digital age, our identities take the shape of database records and qualities. The tendency for online businesses is to collect these qualities to better serve us or to create a unique user experience based on the data that’s obtained about our dynamic and static attributes.
A unique feature distinguishes us from other types of web users. An email address, social security number, or phone number may be used as this property. We obtain these characteristics from our employers in the form of jobs or titles, the business division to which we belong, the responsibilities that we do in projects, or the tier to which we belong in the organizational structure. Attributes associated with our personal and professional lives fluctuate and alter throughout time when we go through life changes such as changing jobs, getting married, and so on.
The following diagram depicts the critical components of an identity management...
