What is the difference between Identity Management and Access Management?

Access Management is the control, administration and development of access control systems and processes.

Identity Management can be seen as a superset of Access management as it includes the Identification of Individuals via a myriad of modalities, conducting background checks, developing systems, controls and processes for Managing Person Identity and so on.

Identity Management is an interesting space today, given the huge security challenges facing countries worldwide. There is however great hope given the new technologies constantly being developed to offer seamless, secure and trusted solutions to complex problems.

The Identity Management (IdM) Service provides the lifecycle management of all identities throughout the enterprise, ensuring privacy, consistency, fidelity and certifies secure access through policy and regulatory compliance.  

In simple terms, Identity Management is to providing and managing identity to an employee in the Organization. Access Management is to, Providing and managing the access to required systems on time to the employees.

Identity and Access Management is to provide the right access to right person on right time.