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| :homepage: https://syncope.apache.org |
| :description: Comprehensive guide about Apache Syncope |
| :keywords: Apache Syncope, IdM, provisioning, identity management, reference, guide |
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| [NOTE] |
| .This document is under active development and discussion! |
| If you find errors or omissions in this document, please don’t hesitate to |
| https://syncope.apache.org/issue-management.html[submit an issue] or |
| https://github.com/apache/syncope/pulls[open a pull request] with |
| a fix. We also encourage you to ask questions and discuss any aspects of the project on the |
| https://syncope.apache.org/mailing-lists.html[mailing lists or IRC]. |
| New contributors are always welcome! |
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| [discrete] |
| == Preface |
| This guide covers Apache Syncope services for: |
| |
| * identity management, provisioning and compliance; |
| * access management, single sign-on, authentication and authorization; |
| * API gateway, secure proxy, service mesh, request routing. |
| |
| == Introduction |
| |
| *Apache Syncope* is an Open Source system for managing digital identities in enterprise environments, implemented in |
| Java EE technology and released under the Apache 2.0 license. |
| |
| Often, _Identity Management_ and _Access Management_ are jointly referred, mainly because their two management worlds |
| likely coexist in the same project or in the same environment. |
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| The two topics are however completely different: each one has its own context, its own rules, its own best practices. |
| |
| On the other hand, some products provide unorthodox implementations so it is indeed possible to do the same thing with |
| both of them. |
| |
| **** |
| Identity Management:: Tools and practices to keep identity data consistent and synchronized across repositories, data |
| formats and models. |
| Access Management:: Systems, protocols and technologies supporting user authentication (how Users are let accessing a |
| given system) and authorization (which capabilities each user owns on a given system). |
| **** |
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| From the definitions above, Identity Management and Access Management can be seen as complementary: very often, the data |
| synchronized by the former are then used by the latter to provide its features - e.g. authentication and authorization. |
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| include::concepts/concepts.adoc[] |
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