Glossary

In computer science, access refers to the permission a user has to get to, and sometimes manage, information stored in a memory or information system.

A user account (or profile) refers to a set of information linked, most often, to a natural person and used to access various computer systems or tools.

Administrator is the highest user role in the hierarchy of privileges. They grant all the rights to create, delete, and edit tool settings or users.

Is a process through which a computer system checks the legitimacy of an access request made by an entity in order to authorize or deny it.

The General Data Protection Regulation is a EU regulation made in 2016 to set guidelines on personal data processing with the European Union.

Hierarchy of privileges is a classification of the rights available to the various user profiles of an information system. It makes it possible to distinguish and allocate rights by users according to their needs.

An identity provider (IdP) is a system entity that is used to create, manage, and store digital identities. It enables access requests to be authenticated and issues tokens to supervise sessions.

Provisioning refers to the automatic allocation of resources.
When speaking about Identity and Access Management, provisioning is the assignment of tools to users, as well as the automation of temporal information (such as a date of departure from the company used to trigger the deletion of a user from the system database).