A Practical Disaster Recovery Approach for Mission Critical Identity and Access Management (IAM) Systems

Identity and access management (IAM) is one of the mission critical information systems that many organizations operate as part of their overall information security program. IAM is a combination of identity management (IDM) and access management (AM) systems. Identity management helps organizations to automate the business processes followed in provisioning, managing and de-provisioning of user accounts (digital identities) in critical IT systems. Access management helps organization to enforce access control mechanisms and offer single sign-on (SSO) feature for users to access web based applications. According to Gartner, IAM is one of the most important components of an organization’s security infrastructure…