Identity & Access Management
Browse IAM solutions including SSO, MFA, PAM, and identity governance platforms for enterprise access control.
33 results in Identity & Access Management
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How to choose identity & access management tools
Identity and access management tools decide who can sign in to which systems and with what privileges. The category includes workforce single sign-on and multi-factor authentication, customer identity APIs that developers embed in their apps, privileged access management for administrator credentials, identity governance for access reviews and infrastructure access proxies. Password managers store individual secrets and endpoint tools protect devices, while IAM controls the identity and the permissions attached to it.
Who uses these tools
- IT admins managing employee accounts and SSO
- Developers adding sign-in to customer apps
- Security teams controlling privileged administrator access
Capabilities to compare
- SAML, OIDC and OAuth federation
- Phishing-resistant MFA and passwordless login
- Automated provisioning through SCIM and HR sync
- Access reviews and separation of duties
- Privileged session recording and credential vaulting
Operating considerations
- Monthly active user pricing for customer identity
- Self-hosted identity servers become critical infrastructure
- Migrating password hashes between providers
- An identity provider outage blocks every application
Selection checklist
- Separate workforce, customer and privileged access needs, since one product rarely covers all three well.
- List your applications and confirm each supports the federation protocol and provisioning method you plan to use.
- Estimate cost at your expected user growth, including enterprise features such as SSO for business customers.
- Plan break-glass accounts and test what happens when the identity provider is unreachable.
What belongs in this category: A product belongs here when it authenticates users or machines, federates identities, enforces access policies, governs entitlements or brokers privileged sessions, for employees, customers or infrastructure.
Identity & Access Management on iThub in figures
iThub lists 33 tools in Identity & Access Management. 16 of 33 are open source, 20 of 33 can be self-hosted, 24 of 33 have a free, freemium or open-source pricing model and 29 of 33 offer an API.
- Tools listed
- 33
- Open source
- 16
- Self-hostable
- 20
- Free to start
- 24
- With an API
- 29
- Web app
- 18
- Desktop app
- 9
Typical use cases
- Giving employees one sign-in across business apps
- Adding login, MFA and user profiles to a SaaS product
- Vaulting and rotating shared administrator credentials
- Running quarterly access reviews for auditors
Trade-offs to model
- Hosted identity platforms remove operational burden, while self-hosted open source servers avoid per-user fees and keep identity data in-house.
- Prebuilt login components speed up launch, whereas API-first approaches give full control over the sign-in experience.
Common mistakes
- Enforcing MFA without phishing-resistant methods for administrators, the accounts attackers target first.
- Leaving deprovisioning manual, so former employees keep access to apps outside single sign-on.
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