Provision, Maintain or De-provision?

About this interactive

The Identity and Access Management lesson treats IAM as more than the systems people sign in to. It also covers how accounts are managed from start to finish, in three stages. Provisioning: someone joins, so an account is created and given the access the new job needs. Maintenance: while the person stays, the account is kept right. When they change jobs, the lesson calls for change management: they get what the new job needs and lose what it does not. Promotions, renamed accounts, replaced tokens, extended contracts and regular access reviews all belong here. De-provisioning: the person leaves, so the account is shut down and its access removed. Some tools call any grant of access "provisioning" and any removal "de-provisioning", whatever the reason. In this lesson's life cycle the stage follows the person. A quick test for each card: is the person joining, staying, or leaving?

What you'll learn

Place an account task in the identity and access management life cycle: provisioning when someone joins, maintenance while they stay, de-provisioning when they leave
Recognize a change of job, a promotion or an extension for someone who stays as maintenance, not as a new account or a removal

Aligned to

CompTIA Security+

4.6 Given a scenario, implement and maintain identity and access management.

NIST 800-53

AC-2 Account Management

Key terms

Account Lifecycle: The end-to-end management of a user account from initial provisioning through ongoing maintenance to final de-provisioning.
Identity and Access Management: A framework of policies and technologies that ensures the right users have appropriate access to resources.
Authorization: The process of determining what actions or resources an authenticated user is permitted to access.

Topics

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