Identity and Access Management (IdM / IAM) have quickly become a core concern for businesses today both public and private. IdM / IAM affects how organizations securely interact and maintain relationships with customers, partners, suppliers and employees.
Given today’s business and regulatory environments, organizations are forced to make identity and access management issues a core component of their computing foundation. Enterprise IdM /IAM spans all of a company’s technologies, and social and political boundaries. Moreover, when organizations consider what to do around IdM / IAM they must consider the impact on their GRC and RBAC initiatives so they complement each other and do not compete for the same resources or budget.
Today’s workforce must have access to a number of systems, including general ledger applications, e-mail systems, business process applications, customer relationship management systems and more. The challenge is that these systems probably do not share a common set of user credentials and have no common user auditing and provisioning mechanism. Likewise, access to these systems will require some level of certification against a corporate policy or enterprise standard like ISO and the ability to govern the access.
Partners Consulting’s Solutions Division has been assisting companies large and small for over ten (10) years to solve their IdM / IAM needs. We have developed a very manageable approach leveraging our methodology to first identify our client’s requirements, followed by an assessment of “build vs. buy” and then recommending a measureable and manageable deployment strategy ensuring success.
Given the fact we have been delivering these services for so many years and for so many clients we have developed some pre packaged service offerings where one builds upon the next enabling our clients to start small as they begin this multiyear initiative. The following is a simple illustration of our IdM / IAM service offerings:
In this phased approach, our Consulting Solutions Division works with our client’s security and audit professionals to understand the company’s specific compliance risks, then we partner with the IT professionals to deploy a world class IdM / IAM solution.
Leveraging industry standards and key technologies our Identity, Access Management and Security service offerings address the following key areas:
- User Entitlements Provisioning
- Entitlements Storage and Directories
- Access Control and Management
- Role Based Access Control