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title: Overview
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# 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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### Get Started

Create a simple OAuth client credentials flow with the IDENTOS Authorization Server.

1. [Create a Basic Resource Server](docId:43VMG-opG9QS9umQ0_J8t)
2. [Create a Basic Resource](docId\:ba8INrCxEGve9Zyr7gJUh)
3. [Create a Basic Client](docId\:pMynCndy11XUp3aFhp7-8)
4. [Create a Basic Access Token](docId\:sCyrDYqEMPrTIg6Vbsdxr)
5. [Enable Consent Management](docId\:EGg-Ifn07IGbQRZOuZGwN)
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### Resource Guides

Learn how to create, manage, and link resources.

- [Create a Resource](docId\:soqSECQwnOeZFVZFzddhy)
- [Create a Resource Server](docId:4zq_ogXlxrhTeWFzqUr9b)
- [Link a Resource to a Resource Server](docId\:JxpUXEDrzjnJOdeDwGP_s)
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### Client Guides

Learn how to create, manage, and authorize clients.

- [Create a Client](docId\:deLhi_bgRp2e4oWFpqc3t)
- [Grant Client Access to a Resource](docId:2Iu7UszRhaT_HCFoZjdcH)


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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.

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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.

### Client

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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.*