3.7 - Identity and Account Management

Question 1

What is an identity provider (IdP)?

Answer 1

A service that stores and verifies user identity. Typically cloud-hosted services, and they often work with single sign-on (SSO) providers to authenticate users.

Question 2

What is an attribute?

Answer 2

An identifier or property of an entity (Name, email, phone number, employee ID, department name, job title, mail stop, etc.).

Question 3

In identity control, what is a certificate?

Answer 3

A public or private key that is bound to a user to encrypt data and prove identity.

Managed by the Certificate Authority (CA)

Question 4

List ways to verify identity.

Answer 4

1) Tokens and cards
2) Certificates
3) Attributes

Question 5

List several types of user accounts/

Answer 5

1) User accounts
2) Shared or generic accounts
3) Guest accounts
4) Service accounts
5) Privileged accounts