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==== Access Managers

_Access Managers_ focus on the application front-end, enforcing application access via authentication
(how Users are let access a given system) and authorization (which capabilities each user owns on a given system).

Several practices and standards can be implemented by Access Managers:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_sign-on[Single Sign-On^]
* http://oauth.net/[OAuth^]
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XACML[XACML^]
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Assertion_Markup_Language[SAML^]
* http://openid.net/connect/[OpenID Connect^]
