Attribute Quality Management for Dynamic Identity and Access Management
The Challenge for Modern IAM
Identity and access management (IAM) has become one main challenge for companies over the last decade. Most of the medium-sized and large organizations operate standardized IAM infrastructures in order to comply with regulations and improve the level of IAM automation.
The Rise of Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)
A recent trend is the application of attribute-based access control (ABAC) for automatically assigning permissions to employees. The success of ABAC, however, heavily relies on the availability of high-quality attribute definitions and values.
Introducing TAQM
Up to now, no structured attribute quality management approach for IAM environments exists. Within this paper, we propose TAQM, a comprehensive approach building on a tool-supported structured process for measuring and improvement of IAM data quality.
Real-life use cases & Applicability
During the evaluation of three real-life use cases within large industrial companies we underline the applicability of TAQM for the identification and cleansing of attribute errors by IT and non-IT experts as well as the general introduction of quality management processes for IAM.
Published by: University of Regensburg, Universitätsstr. 31, 93053 Regensburg and Nexis GmbH, Franz-Mayer-Str. 1, 93053 Regensburg
