User Provisioning

Alternative Forms

• User Creation

• User On-boarding

Definitions

Definition 1

A component of the identity lifecycle.

Related Terms

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User Provisioning: Provisioning is also referred to as on-boarding or creation of CSC account by an identity management system (Gopalakrishnan 2009; Meier et al. 2009; Slone 2004). In a Cloud environment, IDMS typically ensure CSC’s provisioning via Just-in-time or On-demand user provisioning techniques. Cloud based IDMSs support provisioning via Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML) or Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) (Maler et al. 2003; Sodhi 2004). When new CSC subscribes for any Cloud service at CSP, IDMS creates his account and stores all the required information. Cloud IDMS assigns identity credentials to the CSC that he uses while acquiring/accessing various Cloud resources. IDMS further defines CSC roles and associates them with certain services to ensure authorized access to the Cloud services, resources and data.

(Habiba et al., 2014, p. 4)

Bibliography

• Habiba et al., 2014

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