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Changing identity management methods – By Aditya Abeysinghe Identity management Identity management, also called Identity and Access Management (IAM), is a method used to prevent unauthorized access to a resource. It is a term used to describe a range of methods that identifies and authorizes people, groups, and apps using access management rights. With this method, only authorized people, groups of people, and external services can request or use a service or product which could reduce attacks to data, applications or services, and hardware. Identity management is only a defense used to minimize attacks by preventing unauthorized access and is often added using an identity service and an authorization service. Traditional IAM methods Sign in with a username and password has been the typical method to authenticate users. It is still the most used method for authenticating users to products and applications. The method used to authenticate a user with ...