Access Management
Overview

Welcome to IDENTOS Access Management
IDENTOS Access Management capabilities help you
issue access tokens to your client applications
protect your APIs
interact with consent management services
Quick Links
Setup your first authorization flow with our Quickstart, or learn how to create and manage Resources, Clients, and more in our Guides.
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Create a simple OAuth client credentials flow with the IDENTOS Authorization Server.
﻿Create a Basic Resource Server﻿﻿
﻿Create a Basic Resource﻿﻿
﻿Create a Basic Client﻿﻿
﻿Create a Basic Access Token﻿﻿
﻿Enable Consent Management﻿﻿
Resource Guides
Learn how to create, manage, and link resources.
﻿Create a Resource﻿﻿
﻿Create a Resource Server﻿﻿
﻿Link a Resource to a Resource Server﻿﻿
Client Guides
Learn how to create, manage, and authorize clients.
﻿Create a Client﻿﻿
﻿Grant Client Access to a Resource﻿﻿
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Core Components
IDENTOS Access Management extends your existing Resource Servers and Clients with two core components:
Authorization Server: Holds definitions of Client, Resources, scopes, and policies, as well as issues Access Tokens.
Resource Server Adapters: Provides custom integrations for protecting your existing APIs and Resources.
Relationship between Access Management services and other actors
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API Resource Server
This is the API service that you wish to allow clients to access. Access management defines rules and policies that protect under what conditions a Client may access the API.
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Authorization Server
The IDENTOS Authorization Server manages requests 
Resources
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Provide overview of Access Management (Authorization) section content. 
Overview of Authorization Flows
List of basic components (Resource, Resource Owner, Authorization Server, Client)
Relationship between components (diagram?)
List supported authorization standards/frameworks
OAuth 2.0 (protects specific resources accessible through API; delegates authorization decisions to Authorization Server hosting user accounts; provides client permissions through access token)
UMA (provides delegated access; built on top of OAuth 2.0)
SAML (authorization for SSO)
List related authentication standards/frameworks (only for "big picture" awareness; link to Identity Management)
OIDC (provides authentication/identity layer for OAuth 2.0)
SAML (authentication for SSO)
Link to Quickstart
Links to Guides (by component)
Resource
Create Resource
...etc.
Client
Create Client
...etc.
Link to Learn resources (TBD)
Authorization
Authorization Server
Resource
Client
OAuth 2.0
UMA
..etc.
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Updated 23 Apr 2024
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