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What is EmpowerID?
EmpowerID is a modular software product available as SaaS or for on-premise installation that provides broad capabilities in Identity Governance and Administration, Access Management and Single Sign-On, and Privileged Access Management. EmpowerID is a modern container and microservices-based solution. This enables the SaaS and on-premise options to offer equal functionality and to only differ in the infrastructure location in which they are deployed and customer responsibilities. EmpowerID SaaS is deployed and operated in customer-selected Azure regions to ensure data and regulatory compliance.
EmpowerID’s solutions provide complete functionality for all types of identities, including your workforce, partners, customers, and non-person accounts such as applications, devices, or bots.
Identity Governance and Administration - a discipline that focuses on identity life cycle management and access control from an administrative perspective.
Privileged Account Management - focusing on special control for risky high-level access. Privileged Account Management (PAM) is a mechanism for getting those special accounts under control.
Source: Bago (Editor) E. & Glazer I., (2021) “Introduction to Identity - Part 1: Admin-time (v2)”, IDPro Body of Knowledge 1(5).
Access Management and Single Sign-On - controlling the ability for end-users to access systems at runtime. Access Management verifies a user's credentials and allows them access. Access Management also includes federation, which is the ability to access other systems after only logging in once to your Identity Provider.
Key Takeaways:
EmpowerID can be deployed as either on-prem deployment or SaaS
EmpowerID offers identical functionality in both models: SaaS and on-prem.
EmpowerID is a modern containerized and microservice application
EmpowerID manages all types of identities