Identity and Access Management Terms and Concepts Flashcards
"Biometrics refers to the use of physical characteristics, such as fingerprints, facial recognition, or iris scans, to verify identity."
What are access control lists (ACLs)?
Describe the concept of attribute-based access control (ABAC).
"A digital certificate is an electronic document used to prove the ownership of a public key, typically issued by a certificate authority (CA)."
"ACLs are a set of rules that allow or deny access to network resources, based on user identities or other criteria."
What is a digital certificate?
"ABAC is an access control method where access rights are granted based on attributes, such as user role, department, and security clearance level."
What is multi-factor authentication (MFA)?
"PAM is the process of managing and controlling access to critical systems and data by privileged users, including administrators and superusers."
Define biometrics in the context of authentication.
MFA is a security system that requires more than one method of authentication from independent categories of credentials to verify the user's identity for a login or other transaction.
Define privileged access management (PAM).