The safeguards map / 3.6 Identity and authorization
Keycloak
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An identity and access management server that authenticates users and services and evaluates fine-grained authorization policies for the resources it protects.
Where it sits
3.6 Identity and authorization (primary): Authenticates users and services as a single sign-on server and evaluates authorization policies through a policy decision point that resource servers enforce.
Keycloak is a single sign on solution for web apps and RESTful web services.
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Keycloak supports fine-grained authorization policies and is able to combine different access control mechanisms such as:
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Provides a distributable policy decision point to where authorization requests are sent and policies are evaluated accordingly with the permissions being requested.
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Facts
- Concern
- security
- Names the law
- no
- Subject
- software
- Used by
- those who run it
- Runs
- at runtime
- Policy comes from
- owner-entered settings
Handoffs
None recorded. A mapped entry with no handoff is here for its foundation home.
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