{"id":70869,"date":"2013-09-25T10:51:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T14:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?page_id=70869"},"modified":"2021-06-14T14:34:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T18:34:24","slug":"iam","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/security\/iam\/","title":{"rendered":"Identity &#038; Access Management (IAM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Identity &amp; Access Management (IAM) is comprised of four component services: Authentication Services, Authorization Services, Identity Services and Directory Services. These services allow you to establish an identity at BU, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/security\/iam\/authentication\/kerberos\/kerberos\/\">obtain a BU account<\/a>, to manage that account, to get access to BU resources, and to set personal information and preferences in one place and make that information available to many services and locations. In some cases, you may even be able to use your BU login name and password to log into resources provided by another institution.<\/p>\n<p>Having a directory of identities allows the University to tailor services to meet specific needs and to improve security\u2014allocating special capabilities, features, and levels of access as required. IAM allows the University to automate the creation, maintenance, and removal of access as appropriate as you move from role to role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Identity &#038; Access Management (IAM) service provides identity and authentication for people who use services at Boston University. The abilities to have an account, to manage that account, and to log in to protected web pages and applications are all provided by IAM or the IAM service components: Directory Services and Authentication Services&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1356,"featured_media":0,"parent":127,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"service.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1356"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70869"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135507,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70869\/revisions\/135507"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}