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People are often confused about the difference between identity management and access management. Even though they sound similar, both of these terms depict different levels of cybersecurity.

To put it simply, with identity management, you manage the attributes of a user. While with access management, you manage access allowed to a user based on his/her attributes. Or, identity management is when you authenticate users, and access management is when you authorize users.

People often use authentication and authorization interchangeably too, but the truth is that they serve completely different purposes. Authentication is simply the process of telling ‘who’ you are. And it takes place when a person logs in through a login portal. At the same time, authorization is when a person is authorized to access a certain resource.

Everyone has an identity in the digital world. These identities are differentiated based on the attributes of each user in the database. When someone registers online, they plug in a lot of different information about themselves. Employers also assign different attributes to their employees, like mentioning the business unit or project that they are part of, their title in the company, or their status in the organization’s hierarchy.

Unlike social media, these identities are verified, true, and sometimes stored in the database even after an employee retires or resigns. Through identity and access management, each person in the database has only a single well-managed digital identity.

Let’s look at what both these terms mean.