ITL-05 CONSULTING SERVICE
Identity & Access (IAM)
Identity is the new perimeter: most modern breaches start with a poorly managed credential or permission — human or machine, in the data center, in the cloud, or in SaaS.
The problem
The typical corporate environment has accumulated layers of identity over the years: a local directory for workstations, isolated accounts in each SaaS application, cloud identities managed by another team, shared privileged accounts, and an offboarding process that depends on someone remembering to revoke access. Each layer is a door with a different lock — and the audit, or the incident, always finds the one left open.
How we work
Identity governance (IGA)
Establishing the governance program: inventory of identities and access entitlements across on-premises systems, cloud, and SaaS; definition of roles and profiles (role- and attribute-based models); access owners per system; and periodic access certification and review campaigns.
Access lifecycle
Design and automation of the joiner–mover–leaver cycle: automated provisioning and deprovisioning from the authoritative HR source, with immediate revocation on termination and profile adjustment on role changes — where most orphaned access is born.
Authentication and federation
Consolidation of authentication into a central identity provider, with single sign-on through open federation standards, phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication, and context- and risk-aware conditional access policies — covering corporate, cloud, and legacy applications.
Privileged access (PAM)
A privileged access management strategy: discovery of privileged accounts, credential vaulting, temporary and on-demand (just-in-time) elevation, recording of administrative sessions, and elimination of standing privileges.
Machine identities and secrets
Governance of non-human identities — service accounts, API keys, certificates, and system-to-system integrations — with defined ownership, lifecycle, secret rotation, and least privilege, eliminating perpetual static credentials.
Applied experience
Identity programs and architectures designed and reviewed at large financial institutions and multinational operations, covering corporate federation, machine-to-machine access in the cloud, and unification of authentication across heterogeneous environments.
Frequently asked questions
Where should an IAM program start?
With the lifecycle and the privileges: ensuring that offboarding revokes access the same day and that privileged accounts are inventoried and protected eliminates most of the risk with the least investment. Sophisticated role catalogs and quarterly certifications come later — starting with them is the classic recipe for an IAM program that never leaves the drawing board.
Why do machine identities deserve special attention?
Because they multiply faster than human ones and rarely have an owner, a lifecycle, or a review. A static integration key created for a test three years ago can be today's shortest path to your data — and the cloud assessments we conduct confirm this regularly.
Do you implement a specific IAM platform?
The consulting is driven by architecture and process, not by a vendor. We evaluate identity governance, federation, and privilege management platforms in light of your environment and budget — including making better use of what you already license — and we accompany the implementation of the chosen one.
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