The Simple Glossary
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Subject |
A person, a service acting on behalf of a person , or a set of persons/services. |
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Group |
A set of subjects |
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Role |
a set of subjects and the set of privileges they all possess |
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Resource |
A service , datum any other object for which access is controlled |
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Privilege |
an expression of access to a resource |
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Scope |
a constraint on a privilege which refers to a subset of those resources to which the privilege applies. |
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Limit |
a constraint on a privilege that must be calculated at time of access |
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The Mace Glossary
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attribute |
a quality of a subject |
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role |
a set of subjects each possessing the same set of privileges |
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subject |
A person, a service acting on behalf of a person , or a set of persons/services. |
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group |
A set of subjects |
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privilege/permission |
an expression of access to a resource |
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provisioning |
the process of transporting attributes, privileges, groups, roles etc to a resource that does not participate in central IAM solution |
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assertion |
a statement of the value of one or more attributes related to the identity of a subject |
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delegation |
the process of a subject granting a subset of its privileges to another subject |
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federation |
A collection of organizations that have agreed to interoperate using an common set of rules, particularly in the areas of privacy and security. |
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inter-federation |
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level of assurance |
describes the degree of certainty that the user has presented a credential that accurately refers to his or her true identity. |
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authority |
The organization or process that covers most aspects of creating policies and rules governing who has privileges within an organization. |
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consent |
A process by which a subject controls the dissemination of identity attributes about themselves |
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