50 Data Principles For Loosely-Coupled Identity Management
It's been a while since our eBook on Loosely-Coupled IAM (Identity and Access Management) came out. In it, my co-author Umesh Rajbhandari and I had described a radically simpler and more elegant architecture for a corporate identity management system, an architecture we called LIMA (Lightweight/Low-cost/Loosely-coupled Identity Management Architecture). Looking at developments since then, it looks like that book isn't going to be my last word on the subject. IAM has quickly moved from within the confines of a corporate firewall to encompass players over the web. New technology standards have emerged that are in general more lightweight and scalable than anything the corporation has seen before. The "cloud" has infected IAM like everything else, and it appears that IAM in the age of the cloud is a completely different beast. And yet, some things have remained the same. I saw this for myself when reviewing the SCIM specification. This is a provisioning API that is mean...