NIEF TPAT | TD: ICAM Privacy - Appropriate ICAM Attribute Request

ICAM Privacy - Appropriate ICAM Attribute Request, v1.0

Defines privacy requirements related to requests for ICAM attributes during Federated ICAM transactions.

Assessment Step

1 ICAM Privacy - Appropriate ICAM Attribute Request (ICAMPrivacy-AppropriateICAMAttributeRequest) Does the organization request only those ICAM attributes that it requires for the purposes of making authorization decisions, dynamically provisioning accounts, or performing audit logging? Artifact A1 Provide evidence (e.g. organizational policies, procedures, compliance/assessment reports, etc.) that support the assessor's response to this assessment step.

Conformance Criteria (1)

C1 An organization MUST request only those ICAM attributes that it requires for the purposes of making authorization decisions, dynamically provisioning accounts, or performing audit logging. Citation NIEFPP Section 4: NIEF Privacy Policy Rules, Item 6: Appropriate ICAM Attribute Request and Usage

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Identifier

https://trustmark.nief.org/tpat/tds/icam-privacy---appropriate-icam-attribute-request/1.0/

Publication Date

2021-08-27

Issuing Organization

NIEF (https://nief.org/) View Contact

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Keywords

Privacy, ICAM, Attributes

Issuance Criteria

yes(ALL)

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Sources (1)

NIEFPP	National Identity Exchange Federation Privacy Policy Version 2.0, August 27, 2021. https://nief.org/policies/nief-privacy-policy-2.0.pdf

Terms (7)

Term Name	Abbreviations	Definition
Credential Service Provider	CSP	An equivalent term for an Identity Provider Organization (IDPO).
Federated Identity, Credential, and Access Management	Federated ICAM	Describes activities involving the reuse of previously issued local credentials, such that end-users can use those locally issued credentials to access remote resources through a federated "Single Sign-On" (SSO) protocol.
ICAM Attribute		A piece of data about an end-user that can be transmitted from one system to another, for the purpose of enabling the receiving system to make access control decisions and take other actions (e.g., audit logging) related to that end-user.
Identity Provider Organization	IDPO	An organization that vets individuals, collects attributes about these individuals, and maintains those attributes in an accurate manner. An IDPO typically operates one or more Identity Provider (IDP) systems that support a Single Sign-On (SSO) protocol such as the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) or OpenID Connect (OIDC). An IDPO is also sometimes called a Credential Service Provider (CSP).
Identity, Credential, and Access Management	ICAM	Describes acitivites related to identify-proofing end-users, issuing authentication credentials to end-users, lifecycle-managing the issued credentials, and using the issued credentials as part of a strategy whereby end-users' access to sensitive resources is controlled in accordance with applicable policies.
Personally Identifiable Information	PII	Information which can be used to distinguish or trace an individual's identity, such as their name, social security number, biometric records, etc. alone, or when combined with other personal or identifying information which is linked or linkable to a specific individual, such as date and place of birth, mother's maiden name, etc.
Service Provider Organization	SPO	An organization that manages one or more sensitive data resources or applications, and offers access to those resources or applications for federated users from partner organizations, subject to applicable access controls. An SPO typically operates one or more Service Provider (SP) systems that support a Single Sign-On (SSO) protocol such as the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) or OpenID Connect (OIDC).

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