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Clear explainers that put identity concepts side by side — so teams can choose the right controls with confidence.

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Citadel Identity360vsSailPoint

Citadel Identity360 delivers unified identity governance with simpler economics: approximately 50% lower cost, 400 hours of included customization, reduced dependency on product-specific specialists, and one price covering human, non-human and agent identities—including installation, deployment and hypercare support.

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IGAvsIAM

IAM covers the full identity and access discipline; IGA focuses on access governance, lifecycle management and auditability.

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IGAvsPAM

IGA governs enterprise access; PAM protects and controls powerful administrator, service and other privileged access.

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IGAvsSSO

IGA governs who should have access; SSO lets users authenticate once and reach multiple connected applications.

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IGAvsIdP

IGA governs identity lifecycle and access; an IdP authenticates users and supplies trusted identity information to applications.

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IGAvsAccess Management

IGA governs how access is assigned over time; access management evaluates and enforces access when a resource is used.

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IGAvsGRC

IGA implements identity-related controls; GRC coordinates governance, risk and compliance oversight across the organization.

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RBACvsABAC

RBAC assigns permissions through roles; ABAC evaluates identity, resource and environmental attributes against policy.

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AuthenticationvsAuthorization

Authentication verifies an identity; authorization determines which resources and actions that identity is permitted to access.

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Access ReviewvsAccess Certification

An access review examines existing access; certification records the accountable decision to approve, change or revoke it.

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ProvisioningvsDeprovisioning

Provisioning creates or changes access; deprovisioning disables, reduces or removes access when it is no longer needed.

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SCIMvsSAML

SCIM manages users and groups across systems; SAML exchanges security assertions for federation and single sign-on.

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OAuth 2.0vsOpenID Connect

OAuth 2.0 supports delegated authorization; OpenID Connect adds authentication and standardized identity claims.

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Static SoDvsDynamic SoD

Static SoD blocks conflicting access assignments; dynamic SoD blocks conflicting actions within a transaction or session.

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Human IdentitiesvsNon-Human Identities

Human identities represent people; non-human identities represent applications, workloads, services, devices, bots or AI agents.

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Just-in-Time AccessvsZero Standing Privileges

JIT is a method for granting temporary access; ZSP is the broader model of minimizing persistent privileged access.