IDENTITY GOVERNANCE & ADMINISTRATION (IGA) Services
Automating user lifecycle processes is critical for improving your operational efficiency, user experience and security posture, while reducing your risk and operational cost.
Comprehensive Identity Governance & Administration Services
Our comprehensive assessment and implementation services are based on a set of key program attributes that help shape the requirements and create an IGA capability that delivers value to key stakeholders within your enterprise.
What Business Security Issues Do IGA Services Cover?
Robust policies for on-premises or cloud-based IGA solutions are a mainstay of strong security. But why are identity governance and administration important? IGA policies can mitigate risks like supply-chain hacks and ransomware. It’s unfortunately common for the majority of businesses to experience identity-related breaches due to weak IAM processes – on-premises and cloud identity governance and administration policies can keep unauthorized privilege escalation and unauthorized system access-related security breaches at bay. A strong identity governance and administration system goes a long way toward helping businesses know when to remove user access to applications and systems that are no longer necessary.
5 Key Considerations for a Successful IGA Program
Identity Governance & Administration, sometimes referred to as identity security, touches many parts of your organization and needs to be managed in a manner that addresses key requirements for various stakeholders. The top five key considerations for an IGA program are:
- Stakeholder alignment to make sure key requirements from various stakeholders are documented
- Breaking down the overall scope to multiple phases to allow for the delivery of incremental features/capabilities – ultimately improving time to market for high-priority items
- Governance and organizational change management to engage with stakeholders and report on the progress of implementation of key requirements
- Process standardization to help reduce total cost of ownership
- Training for operational staff, users, and help-desk personnel to drive solution adoption and operational efficiency
Identity Governance & Administration Assessment and Strategy
Our assessment and strategy service uses a set of IAM attributes to evaluate your estate that includes key value drivers for your business, architecture, compliance, operations, and users while focusing on the What, Why, How, Who, When and Where of your IGA landscape. This approach helps in looking at your IGA program holistically and recommending a future state that can scale and support your business objectives.
Our Assessment and Strategy deliverables include:
- Preparation of a solution blueprint based on the current state and identification of gaps
- Creation of a roadmap that identifies key projects to address the identified gaps and prioritized into short-term, medium-term and long-term initiatives aligning with your business objectives
IGA Implementation Services
Our implementation services are delivered in Plan, Design, Build, Test, and Rollout phases for your Identity Governance and Administration solution. Our delivery methodology is based on a blend of waterfall and agile approaches to incrementally roll out IGA capabilities. This approach helps in rolling out capabilities in phases, typically delivering foundational capabilities such as authoritative source integration and birthright provisioning, access certification during the initial phase, and expanding the foundational capability in subsequent phases to integrate additional systems and applications.
We also work with your Organizational Change Management (OCM) team to communicate with various stakeholders through the project lifecycle to drive user adoption and help train your operational teams including the help desk to enable them to effectively support the new identity governance solution. We leverage our governance framework to engage various stakeholders through the lifecycle of the project to obtain ongoing guidance and feedback aimed at delivering IGA capabilities that align with your organizational goals.
Benefits of Identity Governance & Administration
Organizations that need to manage their user permissions have to contend with various environments as well as digital identities and users that are based in multiple locations. Governance – identity and governance administration, to be specific – makes it much more feasible for these organizations to secure their user access, manage user and administrator permissions, and enforce requisite compliance policies. Below are some of the biggest benefits that identity governance and administration provide:
Role Management and Duty Segregation: By segregating duties, managing user roles, and balancing security and business knowledge, you can prevent the propagation of security risks and unnecessary complexity. Organizations can also use IGA program-provided role-based access control to bring down compliance costs, better manage risks, and establish repeatable practices that promote easy-to-manage, easily auditable access certification processes.
Sophisticated Auditing, Integration, and Intelligence: Give your stakeholders intelligence and data gained from transaction recording that’s empowered by ad-hoc reporting. Promote wider implementation and integrations as well as the initiation of end-to-end governance and custom development.
Eliminate Waste-Related Business Impacts: Institute remediation and provisioning with a governance adoption strategy that mitigates security risks and waste-related business impacts. Gain a conceptual architecture plan and define a detailed roadmap for your migration toward an advanced governance tool.
Adapt to Organizational Changes: Identity governance and administration solutions let businesses more easily reorganize and expand into different markets; IGA services largely automate adjustments to these changes by using access permissions and user roles. Identity governance and administration significantly reduce the time it takes for businesses to adapt to both user- and enterprise-level changes.
More Reliable Application Onboarding: With identity governance and administration, organizations can accelerate the deployment of their applications by cultivating a repeatable and reliable onboarding factory model. A repeatable model also lets organizations better demonstrate application functionality and promote better data access.
Our Approach as Your Trusted Advisor
Expose any Potential Risk
We assess your existing cybersecurity posture and architecture, identify gaps and vulnerabilities and eliminate solutions that don’t work well together.
Align & Optimize Resources
We validate your policies and controls based on regulatory compliance standards and guidelines as well as with adherence to identity and access management best practices. Additionally, we help align your solutions to your in-house capability.
Integrate Best-Fit Solutions
We review, analyze, compare and vet current and emerging technologies, provide recommendations on products and controls that minimize your risk, and integrate and optimize solutions to fit your needs and environment.
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More than 70% of our workforce consists of tenured cybersecurity engineers, architects and consultants
