Short for identity and access management. The Azure portal's Access control (IAM) blade is where RBAC roles are assigned.
Also called identity and access management.
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In the Ultra Transcenders books
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Each book explains IAM in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Azure portal
Browser-based graphical console from Microsoft for building, managing and watching Azure resources, offering tailored dashboards and a route into Cloud Shell.
- CONTROL
Granting this on a securable gives all other permissions on it too, making it the most powerful SQL permission. At database scope that includes UNMASK and ALTER ANY MASK. Warehouse access through the Admin, Member or Contributor workspace roles carries it.
- WHERE
Limits a SELECT, UPDATE or DELETE to just the rows meeting a condition. Omit it, and the statement hits every row.
- RBAC
Short for role-based access control: Azure role assignments, inherited downward through scopes, that decide who may perform which actions on resources. Resource location and size are outside its control.
Related terms
- AWS IAM
Amazon's service for controlling who can sign in and what they may do across AWS. OneLake's Amazon S3 shortcuts depend on it: the cloud connection behind such a shortcut stores an IAM user's secret access key and its key ID.
- Security Services Catalog
Lists services that provide protection, for example identity and access management, audit or continuity management. A control framework says what is required; these services are the building blocks that deliver it.