A Review on Identity and Access Management Server (KeyCloak)

Abstract

KeyCloak is an open source identity and access management arrangement focused on present day applications and administrations. It makes it simple to protect applications and administrations with next to zero code. The identity and access management server component provides centralized user management, authentication, and single sign-on identity brokering user federation, social login, client adapters, an admin console, and an account management console for the applications. With KeyCloak, the user management and authentication functions may be integrated with an externally managed system, such as LDAP or active directory. KeyCloak provides single sign-on infrastructure for authentication and session management. In this paper, the authors present an overview of KeyCloak that gives the objectives and features of KeyCloak and comparisons between the servers. They also present protocols of KeyCloak. Finally, benefits of KeyCloak are defined.