Identity and Access Management: Business Performance Through Connected Intelligence provides you with a practical, in-depth walkthrough of how to plan, assess, design, and deploy IAM solutions. This book breaks down IAM into manageable components to ease systemwide implementation. The hands-on, end-to-end approach includes a proven step-by-step method for deploying IAM that has been used successfully in over 200 deployments. The book also provides reusable templates and source code examples in Java, XML, and SPML. Focuses on real-word implementations Provides end-to-end coverage of IAM from business drivers, requirements, design, and development to implementation Presents a proven, step-by-step method for deploying IAM that has been successfully used in over 200 cases Includes companion website with source code examples in Java, XML, and SPML as well as reusable templates

Discover how poor identity and privilege management can be leveraged to compromise accounts and credentials within an organization. Learn how role-based identity assignments, entitlements, and auditing strategies can be implemented to mitigate the threats leveraging accounts and identities and how to manage compliance for regulatory initiatives. As a solution, Identity Access Management (IAM) has emerged as the cornerstone of enterprise security. Managing accounts, credentials, roles, certification, and attestation reporting for all resources is now a security and compliance mandate. When identity theft and poor identity management is leveraged as an attack vector, risk and vulnerabilities increase exponentially. As cyber attacks continue to increase in volume and sophistication, it is not a matter of if, but when, your organization will have an incident. Threat actors target accounts, users, and their associated identities, to conduct their malicious activities through privileged attacks and asset vulnerabilities. Identity Attack Vectors details the risks associated with poor identity management practices, the techniques that threat actors and insiders leverage, and the operational best practices that organizations should adopt to protect against identity theft and account compromises, and to develop an effective identity governance program. What You Will Learn Understand the concepts behind an identity and how their associated credentials and accounts can be leveraged as an attack vector Implement an effective Identity Access Management (IAM) program to manage identities and roles, and provide certification for regulatory compliance See where identity management controls play a part of the cyber kill chain and how privileges should be managed as a potential weak link Build upon industry standards to integrate key identity management technologies into a corporate ecosystem Plan for a successful deployment, implementation scope, measurable risk reduction, auditing and discovery, regulatory reporting, and oversight based on real-world strategies to prevent identity attack vectors Who This Book Is For Management and implementers in IT operations, security, and auditing looking to understand and implement an identity access management program and manage privileges in these environments

With their rapidly changing architecture and API-driven automation, cloud platforms come with unique security challenges and opportunities. This hands-on book guides you through security best practices for multivendor cloud environments, whether your company plans to move legacy on-premises projects to the cloud or build a new infrastructure from the ground up. Developers, IT architects, and security professionals will learn cloud-specific techniques for securing popular cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and IBM Cloud. Chris Dotson—an IBM senior technical staff member—shows you how to establish data asset management, identity and access management, vulnerability management, network security, and incident response in your cloud environment.

"This book explores important and emerging advancements in digital identity and access management systems, providing innovative answers to an assortment of problems as system managers are faced with major organizational, economic and market changes"--Provided by publisher.

Description: Consumer identity and access management (CIAM) is a critical component of any modern organisation's digital transformation initiative. If you used the Internet yesterday, you would very likely have interacted with a website that had customer identity and access management at its foundation. Making an online purchase, checking your bank balance, getting a quote for car insurance, logging into a social media site or submitting and paying your income tax return. All of those interactions require high scale, secure identity and access management services. But how are those systems designed? Synopsis: Modern organisations need to not only meet end user privacy, security and usability requirements, but also provide business enablement opportunities that are agile and can respond to market changes rapidly. The modern enterprise architect and CISO is no longer just focused upon internal employee security - they now need to address the growing need for digital enablement across consumers and citizens too. CIAM Design Fundamentals, is CISO and architect view on designing the fundamental building blocks of a scaleable, secure and usable consumer identity and access management (CIAM) system. Covering: business objectives, drivers, requirements, CIAM life-cycle, implementer toolkit of standards, design principles and vendor selection guidance. Reviews: "Consumer identity is at the very core of many a successful digital transformation project. Simon blends first hand experience, research and analysis, to create a superbly accessible guide to designing such platforms - "Scott Forrester CISSP, Principal Consultant, UK. "This is the book that needs to be on every Identity Architect's Kindle. Simon does a great job of laying the foundation and history of Consumer Identity and Access Management and then gives you the roadmap that you need as an architect to deliver success on a project" - Brad Tumy, Founder & Principal Architect, Tumy Technology, Inc, USA. "Leveraging his strong security and industry background, Simon has created a must-have book for any Identity and Access Management professional looking to implement a CIAM solution. I strongly recommend the Consumer Identity & Access Management Design Fundamentals book!" - Robert Skoczylas, Chief Executive Officer, Indigo Consulting Canada Inc. About the Author: Simon Moffatt is a recognised expert in the field of digital identity and access management, having spent nearly 20 years working in the sector, with experience gained in consultancies, startups, global vendors and within industry. He has contributed to identity and security standards for the likes of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Internet Engineering Task Force. Simon is perhaps best well known as a public speaker and industry commentator via his site The Cyber Hut.He is a CISSP, CCSP, CEH and CISA and has a collection of vendor related qualifications from the likes Microsoft, Novell and Cisco. He is an accepted full member of the Chartered Institute of Information Security (M.CIIS), a long time member of the British Computer Society and a senior member of the Information Systems Security Association. He is also a postgraduate student at Royal Holloway University, studying for a Masters of Science in Information Security.Since 2013, he has worked at ForgeRock, a leading digital identity software platform provider, where he is currently Global Technical Product Management Director.

Identity Management, or IDM, refers to how humans are identified and authorized across computer networks. It encompasses issues such as the way users are given an identity, the protection of that identity, and the technologies supporting that protection, such as network protocols, digital certificates, passwords, and so on. Proper identity management is, of course, an essential component of any security strategy. Identity Management: A Primer provides a complete and comprehensive overview of the elements required for a properly planned identity environment.

The book is a powerful, novel approach to the analysis and synthesis of IAM systems. It is motivated by the realization that the current practice of Information Systems in general, and Identity and Access Management in particular, is increasingly divorced from its Systems Engineering underpinnings. Even for the most innovative and resourceful practitioners, the architecture, design, implementation and support of enterprise Information Technology systems has taken a complex inferential approach, driven by algorithmic and rule based protocols and standards. This work creates a solid foundation for IAM by using established concepts from Systems Engineering, using systems representations for major IAM processes like authentication and authorization. Such systems formulations may then be used to analyze IAM systems in complicated organizations using established Systems Engineering methods. For example, the book shows that problems in IAM such as risk propagation and authentication processes that were heretofore analyzed in terms of prescriptive, algorithmic or empirical schemes, are indeed amenable to general theoretical treatment. The book is specifically designed to be accessible to the general IT practitioner. It is with this goal in mind that it teases out the concepts in a way that anyone with some college education will be able to understand.