Solutions whichprovided by identity management.

Management of identities

• Provisioning/De-provisioning of accounts
• Workflow automation
• Delegated administration
• Password synchronization
• Self-service password reset

Access control

• Policy-based access control
• Enterprise/Legacy single sign-on (SSO)
• Web single sign-on (SeoS)
• Reduced sign-on

Directory services

• Identity repository (directory services for the administration of user account attributes)
• Metadata replication/Synchronization
• Directory virtualization (Virtual directory)
• e-Business scale directory systems
• Next-generation systems - Composite Adaptive Directory Services (CADS) and CADS SDP

Other categories

• Role-based access control (RBAC)
• Federation of user access rights on web applications across otherwise untrusted networks
• Directory-enabled networking and 802.1X EAP

Standards initiatives

• Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
• Liberty Alliance — A consortium promoting federated identity management
• Shibboleth (Internet2) — Identity standards targeted towards educational environments
• Global Trust Center