Chapter 8, Problem 1IQ

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 Identity management:

• The Identity management (ID management) denotes an organizational process to identify, authenticate and authorize individuals to have access to an information.
• The information includes applications, networks with user rights and other company information.
• It includes authentication of users and determine whether they are allowed for access to a particular system.
• It determines whether a user has access to the systems but also sets access level and permission level for users.
• It includes control over process of authorizing system or network permissions for existing users.
• It includes off boarding of users who are no longer authorized for access to organizational system.

Authentication:

• Authentication denotes a process of recognizing identity of a user.
• It denotes a method to associate an inbound request with identifying credential set.
• The credentials delivered are compared with the values of file in a database of authorized information of user within the authentication server.
• It has two different phases, identification as well as actual authentication.
• The identification phase would provide a user identity to security system.
• This identity is been provided in form of a user ID.

Explanation of Solution

Working with IT security systems:

“Yes”, the user has worked with IT security systems and identity management. The job nature was to ensure proper working of the systems in an organization.

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Nature of work with the software:

• The job nature was to ensure proper working of the systems in an organization.
• The proper updating of virus protection software and system updates was one of the responsibilities.
• The scheduled back up schemes is to be controlled and managed.
• To ensure proper working of software present in organization.
• To ensure credentials provided by user matches with that of access file database.