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ByNational Cyber Security Centreteal_ridge_b02bf4

This guidance provides a primer on the essential techniques, technologies and uses of access management.

Adapted edition

Identity management
Document type
Reference Guide
Format
DOCX
Pages
6
Language
English
Version
1.0
Updated
2026-09-16
Category
Information security
Licence
Open Government Licence v3.0
Description

This guidance provides a primer on the essential techniques, technologies and uses of access management for organisational planning, review and training. NCSC guidance is advisory and should be applied to the organisation's own risks and obligations.

Contents
  • Introduction
  • About this guidance
  • Overview
  • Policy
  • Identity management
  • Privileged user management
  • Architecture design
  • Operational technology (OT)
  • Operations and monitoring
  • Source links
Source and licence
Introduction to identity and access management

National Cyber Security Centre

Original source OGL-UK-3.0

AttributionNational Cyber Security Centre, “Introduction to identity and access management” (22 January 2018), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

ChangesAdapted 16 September 2026: converted the official HTML article into neutral text-only DOCX and PDF editions. Preserved article headings, paragraphs, lists and plain-text source-link destinations; normalized web whitespace and typographic punctuation; omitted site navigation, topic and download cards, images, logos, scripts, styles and page furniture.

Version history
  • v1.016/09/2026
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