Abbreviations
Applications & Solutions
IAM Terms & Concepts
Our IAM Team
IAM Potpourri
100

IAM

What is Identity & Access Management?

100

This is the application platform used for IT Central. 

What is ServiceNow?

100

PAM is the abbreviation for this.

What is Privileged Access Management?

100

Recently implemented as an enterprise service, this solution delivers a 2nd layer of security during login, especially when working remotely. 

What is MFA or Multifactor Authentication?

100

This is the person who routinely makes decisions on access reviews, whether an application owner or manager, to approve or revoke access for users.

What is a Reviewer?

200

SNOW

What is ServiceNow?

200

This is name of our solution for privileged access management.

What is BeyondTrust? 

200

This is the how we periodically (monthly, quarterly) confirm and validate user access to certain systems and applications for compliance.

What is an Access Review (or Certification or Campaign)?

200

This is our business partner that completes User Fulfillment tasks for most of Drug Development and some of Diagnostics.

What is Stefanini?

200

SOX is the abbreviation for this.

What is Sarbanes Oxley (Act)?

300

NAF

What is Network Access Form?

300

This is one of the many tools we use for collaboration within IAM (name one). 

What is O365 or MS Teams or Confluence? (Shared folder/drive, H: drive, or Email is also acceptable.)

300

The internal control "SoD" is the abbreviation for this phrase.

What is Separation of Duties or Segregation of Duties?

300

This is IAM’s solution for a unique identifier that stores identity information pertaining to each user in the LabCorp enterprise, including storage of multiple userIDs and employee numbers.

What is MeID?

300

This is our adoring nickname for our internal centralized identity source.

What is the Washing Machine (or Maytag)?

400

Dx & DD

What is Diagnostics & Drug Development?

400

Our older solution for Single Sign-On is SiteMinder, but our newer solution being provided for Single Sign-On is this. 

What is Okta?

400

This method allows a user to authenticate to multiple applications by one login.

What is SSO or Single Sign On?

400

This is the name of the SaaS platform currently in implementation to provide enterprise-wide lifecycle management, provisioning, governance, and SOD for LabCorp. 

What is SailPoint or IdentityNow?

400

These are 3 of the 4 factors that we use here for our multifactor authentication.

NAME 3:  What is Google Authenticator, Okta Verify, Okta PUSH, or SMS Text?

500

GP&SD

What is Governance, Program & Service Delivery?

500

Previously owned by Novell, eDirectory is a software product of this company.

What is NetIQ (or MicroFocus)?

500

This is the security principal that an employee should be given the minimum permissions to do his/her job.

What is Least Privilege Access?

500

This is the proper name of our internal centralized identity source (not its nickname).

What is IDHub?

500

HIPAA is the abbreviation for this.

What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?

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