Realm definition in security

Question

I searched a lot about security realms and read a lot of documentations for identity management systems such as WSO2, Keycloak, Apache Syncope and more, but unfortunately I couldn't find the exact meaning of security realm.

I found that realm is a collection of security entities such as Users, Groups, Clients, Roles .. etc, that handles all the operations about these objects.

Can anyone please provide me with a definition for it?

Thanks

Answer 1

Think of a realm as a hard partitioning structure that enables multi-tennancy in a single keycloak installation.

For example unrelated organisations might be configured as realms, each organisation (realm) having their own set of users, admins, security configurations, policies, roles, clients, groups etc.

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