for enterprise or cross-network identity management. Additional terms are used synonymously with "identity-management system" include: Access-governance system Identity and access management system Entitlement-management system User provisioning system Identity management, otherwise known as identity and access management (IAM) is an identity security framework that works to authenticate and authorize user access to resources such as applications, data, systems, and cloud platforms. It seeks to ensure only the right people are being provisioned to the right tools, and for the right reasons. As our digital ecosystem continues to advance, so does the world of identity management. "Identity management" and "access and identity management" (or AIM) are terms that are used interchangeably under the title of identity management while identity management itself falls under the umbrella of IT security and information privacy and privacy risk as well as usability and e-inclusion studies. There are three components of Identity and Access Management (IAM): Access management/Single sign-on to verify users' identities before they can access the network and applications Identity governance to ensure that user access is being granted according to appropriate access policies for onboarding and role/responsibility changes Privileged access management to control and monitor access to highly privileged accounts, applications and system assets These technologies can be combined using identity governance, which provides the foundation for automated workflows and processes. Modes of identity management Identity is conceptualized in three different modes, according to an analysis:from the FIDIS Network of Excellence: Idem-identity: A third-person (i.e., objectified) attribution of sameness. Such an objectified perspective can not only be taken towards others but also towards oneself. Ipse-identity: The ipse-identity perspective is the first-person perspective on what constitutes oneself as a continuous being (idem) in the course of time, while experiencing multiplicity and difference in the here and now. me-identity: The 'me' (G. H. Mead) is the organised set of attitudes of others which one assumes. It is coconstituted by the 'I', the first person perspective, which incorporates the variety of third person perspectives it encounters and develops. Thus, the 'me' is continuously reconstituted in the face of changing third person perspectives on the self. In Bertino's and Takahashi's textbook, three categories of identity are defined that are to a degree overlapping with the FIDIS identity concepts: ”Me-Identity": What I define as identity ”Our-Identity": What others and I define as identity ”Their-Identity": What others define as my identity Purposes for using identity management systems Identity management systems