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Leverage the deep expertise in our Advisory Practice to develop an IAM strategy that is appropriate to your industry and aligns with the best practices and frameworks.

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We're experts at helping organizations build effective Identity Security programs

Many organizations struggle developing a strategy and approach to IAM. Xalient’s IAM Advisory services can help you gain a comprehensive understanding of your current environment and requirements. We can then help define what a successful IAM program for your organization, help with vendor selection if needed, and provide a roadmap to get there. Some of the services we provide include:

  • Free workshops to help educate and drive success
  • Strategy and roadmap planning
  • Refresh and Modernize your IAM program
  • Zero Trust Advisory
  • Vendor evaluation and RFP support
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • IAM Director-as-a-Service

The rapidly evolving landscape of IAM and the challenges it addresses requires an approach that  combines best practices and decades of experience.  We provide support from an SME perspective, helping organizations make sense of IAM and build a strategy appropriate to their needs and requirements.

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Free IAM Workshops

Each year, it seems, a new group of acronyms enters the IAM space. CIEM. ITDR. NHI. It makes understanding the tools, frameworks, and best practices more difficult and complex. Our workshops can help.

Always tailored to fit your needs and delivered in a short 1 to 2 hour presentation, we can cover topics across the IAM spectrum. Our most popular workshop is IAM Essentials, where we cover the core concepts of Identity Security, how they fit together, and how the marketplace has developed to cover theses needs. Other popular topics include:

  • IAM Essentials Workshop
  • Privileged Access Management (PAM) Essentials Workshop
  • Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) Essentials Workshop
  • SailPoint Solutions Workshop
  • Oracle OIM Replacement Workshop
  • Zero Trust Workshop
  • IAM Program Governance Workshop
  • RBAC Essentials Workshop

     

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Identity Recharge & Modernization

Like the rest of the Cyber Security industry, there is a shortage of IAM professionals. Finding the right person to lead your organization’s IAM Program is difficult, and often takes time. Xalient Advisory has helped numerous organizations in many industries with this gap. 

We can provide an experienced, mature IAM Director to drive the work and maintain progress while you continue that search.  Our role often includes:

  • Managing the IAM team and program
  • Providing oversight on IAM work in progress
  • Managing resources in IAM for operations or managed support
  • Provide mentorship to new IAM Directors
  • Providing strategic support in planning and communications
  • Update or create strategies to guide the work
  • Team training and growth
  • Hiring or vetting assistance for team
 

Our services typically include regular updates and status reports, management of teams completing work in IAM, management of managed support resources, and advisory on IAM strategy and plans. In addition, we can provide services to help mentor and grow an IAM resource when needed to fill this critical role.

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Vendor Selection

Each year, the vendor space in IAM grows considerably larger. In addition to new vendors competing with existing leaders, there are also new technologies and capabilities introduced. To add to the complexity, mergers and acquisitions occur between these identity companies. Trying to figure out what is best for your business and your industry can seem daunting in the least.

From a vendor agnostic standpoint, we gather key requirements from within the organization and analyze those against our deep understanding of the vendors in the space to provide guidance on best fit. 

We can also provide estimates for different solutions to help with decision making. We can make sure that the best tool for your environment is chosen, minimizing myriads of technical and user issues with trying to make the wrong tool fit how you work and the environment you manage.

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IAM Director-as-a-Service

Strategies are dynamic documents, requiring revisits and alignment on a regular basis. If you have a strategy that was developed more than a year ago, it may be time to recalibrate your efforts to your current, updated view of your environment. This update should also take into account additional capabilities now in scope, vendor updates and changes, and new IT assets and technologies in your portfolio.

  • Are you tracking well to your original plan? If not, why not?
  • What new tools and features should you should be aware of?
  • What new threats do you need to protect against?

This assessment reviews where you are at to determine current maturity, and an updated future state strategy to guide you moving forward. Our assessments include recommendations on technologies, addition of new technology when appropriate, and a new roadmap to guide the plan.

In addition, discussions with the IAM team on the project leads to better understanding of new IAM standards and capabilities, and knowing what it will take to grow and mature.

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CIEM Services

It goes without saying that cloud services have changed how we manage information and compute resources. This ‘race to the cloud’ made it easy for organizations to rapidly build virtual infrastructure, and even full data centers without concern over additional hardware and operational support. Another consequence of the rapid adoption of cloud is the proliferation of privileged identities in the infrastructure of the cloud environments. In addition, the ability to define identity and access in code meant that user directories were not necessarily the sole location of identities.

This need to manage these often complex entitlements has led to the development of Cloud Infrastructure Entitlements Management (CIEM) tools and platforms. These tools have quickly moved from cutting edge to mandatory, addressing the need to control access in these complex IAM environments. Xalient Advisory has been leading the support of this practice, advising our clients around CIEM and how to address it. We can help engage and provide guidance on discovering your current cloud IAM footprint, how to address near term gaps, and long term strategy to maintain controls in the cloud.

 
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ITDR Services

Identity plays a key role in every attack vector. Usually, multiple identities are involved, as the attacker laterals to new accounts that provide more and more privilege in the environment to carry out the attack. These threats have to be guarded against using several cyber security tools that many organizations utilize. In addition, internal use behavior and activity also must be monitored to ensure suspicious activities are flagged, monitored, and killed to block bad actors. Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) is an approach to orchestration of the identity intelligence available with the enforcement tools in place, to manage workflows that watch for behavior and take action across whatever tool is needed to address it.

Xalient Advisory has helped other organizations determine what gaps they may have today in supporting ITDR, and a strategy and approach to fill those gaps. We can help you develop a practical, actionable plan to mature in this critical cyber security area.

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Machine Identities

Non-human identities consist of a number of types that each must be managed and controlled. Service accounts, API keys, OAuth tokens, certificates, SSH keys, cloud workload identities, and HSM all use identities to provide access to services on their hardware and network. These varied types of identities all must be discovered, monitored, and controlled by policy to ensure identity security and many times to ensure compliance. 

Many new tools and approaches to NHI have been developed, making it easier to centralize and automate management and enforcement. Xalient Advisory can help by providing analysis and guidance, which often includes:

  • Discovering the types of machine identities that exist in your environment
  • The current state of Identity Security for machine identities
  • Application of Zero Trust in machine identity approach
  • Development of a strategy to centralize, automate, and enforce these identities
  • Best practices for IAM and Identity Security
  • Recommendations for solutions based on your needs
 
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Advisory Case Study Spotlight

Delivering an IAM Strategy at Amgen that aligned UX and cybersecurity needs

Amgen leaned on Xalient’s experience to deliver an IAM advisory engagement that aligned their Identity Security strategy with ISO27001. Their goals also including reducing risk and cost, aligning with with best practices, and ensuring the user experience supported their diverse workforce.

Xalient delivered an IAM strategy to that identified the core areas for maturity improvement aligned with the company’s vision and business drivers. Furthermore, we ensured the strategy, recommendations solutions and roadmap supported the unique usability requirements of their workforce personas. The on time and on budget engagement included a comprehensive ROI model to demonstrate cost savings from their IAM investments.

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Why choose Xalient's Advisory Practice?

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Decades of Experience with ALL of Identity

Our Identity experts have extensive experience across all areas of Identity Security, not just IGA.

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Our Free Workshops Help Clarify

Our custom workshops are tailored to fit your specific needs, teach best practices, and build consensus.

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Elite Vendor Expertise and Experience

Our job is to understand every platform, through constant education and hands-on experience.

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Zero Trust Experts

Identity Security is central to establishing Zero Trust. If implementing a ZT framework is your goal, we can build a strategy and roadmap that gets you there.

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Holistic Approach

Our success is driven by our ability to provide guidance and leadership. We will provide a holistic view of your IAM program and help ensure you make the right decisions.

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Managed Services

We can provide cost-effective Managed Service solutions, leveraging our IAM expertise to help plan, implement, monitor, and support your Identity Security program.

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