IAM (identity and access management)
The system of roles and permissions controlling who can access what in the cloud.
Learn it through a story
- The Bucket Everyone Forgot About (Cybersecurity for Juniors 3, Ch 9)
Related terms
- Hashing Turning data into a fixed, one-way fingerprint used to check a match.
- HTTPS A secure, encrypted connection to a website, shown by a padlock in the address bar.
- HTTPS / TLS Encryption that protects your connection to a specific site, shown as a padlock in the browser.
- Identity and access management (IAM) The discipline of managing who or what can access a system, and what they can do.
- Identity provider A central service other systems rely on to verify who someone is.
- IDOR (Insecure Direct Object Reference) A flaw where a system trusts an ID in a request instead of checking who's allowed to see it.