Overview#

Policy Information Point (PIP) is the repository for hosts the Policies the digital representation of the Policy which is provided to the policy Decision Point which then passes the decision to the Policy Enforcement Point where the access is permitted or denied.

Obviously in Policy Based Management System, all of the entities:

• Policy Information Point
• Policy Decision Point
• Policy Enforcement Point

May reside within the same application of the same host.

XAML#

Policy information point (PIP) - The system entity that acts as a source of attribute values

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• Access Control
• Attribute Based Access Control
• Authorization Server
• Entitlement Management System
• Glossary Of LDAP And Directory Terminology
• Identity Aware Proxy
• PIP
• Policy
• Policy Based Management System
• Policy Decision Point
• Policy Enforcement Point
• Policy Information Point
• Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service
• Resource Inventory Service
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