Identity and access management (IAM) or (IdAM) is a method of determining who the user is and what they are allowed to do. IAM is a concert like a doorkeeper and has a list of authorized, unauthorized people and people with access to the VIP area. IAM is also called Identity Management (IdM).

more technically, IAM is a means of managing a certain set of users digital identities and privileges related to each identity. This is a general concept that includes a number of different products that all perform this main function. In an organization, IAM may be a single product, or it may be a combination of processes, software products, cloud and hardware services that allow administrators to view and control organizational data that individual users can access. IAM is a product for cloud and network security.