IAM Terminology

Term	Definition	Comment
IAM	Identity and access management	Gartner's definition
IdM	Identity management (IdM) describes the management of individual principals, their authentication, authorization,[1] and privileges within or across system and enterprise boundaries with the goal of increasing security and productivity while decreasing cost, downtime and repetitive tasks.	IdM on Wikipedia
AM	Access management describes management of individuals authorization and privileges
SSO	Single Sign on - The user logs on once for multiple applications. Also includes autentication of users towards backend services.

Term	Definition	Comment
UserIdentity	This is the user as stored in LDAP and NOT the accesses and roles, which is derived from the user-company contract(s) (employee, member, buyer etc.) UserIdentityBackend - UIB
UserCredential	Used for logging on, i.e. username and password
UserToken	A key given to the applicatin on behalf of the logged on user.	What is the diff between Security token and user token? Security token on Wikipedia
UserTokenID	The session-representation for a user-session in Whydah SSO
ApplicationCredential
ApplicationToken
applicationTokenID	The session-token for an application collaborating in the Whydah SSO
SSOTicket	A one-time handover-token from one application to another to pass along a logged-on user between applications SSO	Also called UserTicket or just Ticket in SSO terminology