Identity Management - Perspectives On IdM

Perspectives On IdM

In the real-world context of engineering online systems, identity management can involve three perspectives:

1. The pure identity paradigm: Creation, management and deletion of identities without regard to access or entitlements;
2. The user access (log-on) paradigm: For example: a smart card and its associated data used by a customer to log on to a service or services (a traditional view);
3. The service paradigm: A system that delivers personalized, role-based, online, on-demand, multimedia (content), presence-based services to users and their devices.