Solving Identity Management in Modern Applications: Demystifying OAuth 2, OpenID Connect, and SAML 2

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Y. Wilson, A. HingnikarSolving Identity Management in Modern Applicationshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8261-8_15

15. Deprovisioning

Yvonne Wilson¹   and Abhishek Hingnikar²

(1)

San Francisco, CA, USA

(2)

London, UK

 

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

—Edgar Allan Poe, American author, from The Premature Burial (1844)

The final event in the life of an identity is deprovisioning, when an account and associated identity attributes are deleted or disabled so they can no longer be used. When an account is terminated, there are several design points to consider related ...