LDAPWiki: Credential Management

Overview#

Credential Management is the management of Credentials.

Credential Management is the set of practices that an Credential Service Provider uses to:[1]

credentials for identities within their context and amongst any Federation partners

Attackers that can gain control of your Credential Management system can issue credentials that make them an insider, potentially with privileges to compromise systems undetected.
Compromised Credential Management processes result in the need to re-issue credentials, which can be an expensive and time-consuming process.
Business application owners’ expectations around security and Trust Models are rising, and can expose Credential Management as a weak link that may jeopardize compliance claims.

These Credentials are secrets and may consist of:

passwords - for which we have Password Management
Private Keys - which we really have no real standard for Credential Management, perhaps Secure Element?
Certificates - which we have maybe Public Key Infrastructure; but that does not provide storage of Private Keys
Universal Second Factor - Which has no standard for Credential Management
Biometric Templates - Typically, these

Any Authentication Method (or Authentication Factor) without a Credential Management that includes Credential Recovery, requires the replacement of the Credential y performing Credential Enrollment and Identity Proofing

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