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Awards Gartner-recognized "Top 10" IAM global leader.

Does your cybersecurity journey feel like an uphill struggle? A trek to a remote summit where the costs get steeper, the number of people employed climbs and the track gets rockier.

It doesn't need to be that way.

With the right planning and strategy, your cybersecurity journey should gain momentum, flowing faster and smoother as each milestone comes onstream. That's why we talk a lot about "streamlining."

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IDMWORKS is known for fast-track, end-to-end IAM programs, but we can join your journey at any point. 

  • Your auditor is asking questions, your insurance premiums have skyrocketed?
  • You have your strategy and roadmap but can’t decide on a vendor?
  • You have a vendor, but not the capacity or capability to implement?
  • You’ve implemented, but have gaps in automation and optimization?
  • You want hands-on help managing day-to-day operations?
  • You want to delegate IAM to a trusted Managed Services Provider (MSP)?

Our track record in professional and technical services spans two decades, all industries and half the world.

IDMWORKS’ diverse yet comprehensive service offering is unique in the identity and access management landscape. We have depth and breadth—because that’s what it takes to make IAM simple for our clients. 

Guide

We benchmark legacy systems, develop a strategy and financial business case, evaluate best-fit IAM solutions and vendors, and develop policies that build resilience and drive growth.

Launch

We work with you to select, implement, configure, align, customize and train staff on your IAM solution so you get the best value, protection and ROI from your cyber security investments.

Connect

Our technical expertise, exclusive innovations and proprietary tools power the way we automate, monitor & control IAM. Automation boosts operational efficiency and security policies.

Manage

Our proven, industry-renowned managed identity services will stabilize, manage, integrate and scale your IAM. We ensure compliance, and facilitate your migration to AI, SaaS and the cloud.

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IDMWORKS is passionate about identity
innovation. We’re here to assist you in
designing cutting-edge identity solutions
that adapt to your evolving access
management needs. 

Our experienced team of analysts will guide you through a comprehensive IAM assessment, capturing insights across people, processes, and technology. We’ll help you envision an ideal state, create reference architectures, and bridge the gap between your current and future states. 

Our practical IAM roadmap ensures you
achieve your goals step by step.

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IAM Compliance Analysis. Our experts work with your team to establish business goals and priorities and to benchmark your existing or legacy systems against industry-based compliance and security best-practice. 

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IAM Solution Evaluation. Vendor-neutral evaluation and recommendation of IAM solutions for your custom business needs. We help organizations understand the identity landscape and find the best fit for your resources.

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IAM Technology Roadmap. Our strategic roadmap results in a program plan with achievable milestones that drives productivity and innovation while balancing resources and constraints. 

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IAM Health Check Strategy. A robust, responsive IAM program needs to adjust over time. We review policies to mitigate risk, set up monitoring to pre-empt problems, and identify priorities to optimize and automate.

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Our team provides ongoing guidance to help you successfully implement your approved roadmap.

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • IAM involves managing digital identities (users, devices, applications) and controlling their access to resources. Its importance lies in enhancing security by ensuring only authorized users and APIs have access to sensitive data and resources, thereby reducing the risk of data breaches and compliance violations.

    • Authentication methods that balance risk and productivity
    • Authorization policies to specify who can access what
    • Automated user provisioning and deprovisioning
    • Identity governance and administration (IGA)
    • Identity lifecycle management
  • IAM ensures proper control and auditing of access to sensitive data, in order to align with industry-specific compliance regulations.

    Industry-specific reports around access controls, audit trails, and user activity monitoring are evidence of compliance.

  • People: Users find the system is unproductive, unfriendly and inconsistent.

    Technology: Legacy and existing systems can’t connect to cloud-based and 3rd party apps.   

    Structures: The systems and processes are inflexible and don’t accommodate organizational change or technology advances.

    • Conduct a comprehensive risk assessment and define clear business goals.
    • Select the right vendor, software and infrastructure to fit your goals.
    • Implement a phased approach to deployment, starting with high-priority areas.
    • Provide ongoing user education to promote security awareness and new trends
    • Regularly review and update IAM policies and configurations to adapt to threats and needs.

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Professional project management of
customized IAM solutions

In 20 years of implementing IAM projects, there aren’t many identity challenges that IDMWORKS haven’t successfully tackled. We are here to help with procurement, integration and tailored solutions, as well as empowering your team through focused training.

How can IDMWORKS help you

Procurement

Procurement

Once the vendor decision gets the green light, we roll up our sleeves and dive into the detail. 

Our goal is to secure the best deal for you, complete with all the right parameters and modules. We’ll scrutinize pricing, licensing terms, and customization needs, and get clarity on support, maintenance, and future upgrades.

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Integration

We lead the integration team, keeping project sponsors updated. We respect your employees' time while we work through use cases, requirements gathering, design, testing, and documentation. 

Our IAM technology project managers use their business and technical experience to maximize resources. Our track record speaks for itself—we’ve successfully delivered thousands of identity implementations across diverse industries.

Tailored Solutions

Tailored Solutions

our business is differentiated, your IAM software should be too. We’ll craft a solution that ensures a consistent, user-friendly experience across legacy systems and existing applications. 

Where needed, we can build custom workflows and third-party integrations. IDMWORKS stays up-to-date with the latest platforms and technologies, so you get a solution that fits like a glove.

Empowering

Empowering the client’s team

Our aim is to set you up for long-term success. Personalized training, including our unique “Train the Owner” program, gets your entire team up-and-running with your selected vendor software.  

We continue to host events and develop custom training materials to help your organization make the most of the solution’s capabilities, and become self-sufficient.

Connect

Products and services to close your IAM
“connectivity gap” 

Many organizations have only a small percentage of their applications connected to their IAM solution. It’s like having a jigsaw puzzle with missing pieces. This “connectivity gap” leads to frustratingly manual processes and security risks, and reduces opportunities for automation. IDMWORKS offers both products and services to address this challenge.

Services

Managed Connectivity

IDMWORKS integrates your IAM solutions with other systems and applications to ensure data and systems are synchronized. Our experienced team has the in-depth technical expertise to tackle complex and non-standard connections through RPA and other techniques. By leveraging our knowledgeable team and methods paired with our revolutionary Identity Insights Dashboard, we provide connectivity and visibility throughout your environment.

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Identity Governance & Administration

IAM governance defines how your IAM program is managed and implemented. IDMWORKS can help you define and maintain identity governance and administration (IGA). Your IAM governing body will create and maintain policies and set the standards for key IAM functions.

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Products

IdentityForge Connectors

Imagine a central hub where all user accounts are managed automatically—across various systems and applications. Connectors ensure the right access, at the right time.

IDMWORKS leverages IdentityForge connectors to tighten security, minimize risk, save time and reduce operating costs. Our solution automates access requests, and when someone leaves, their access is automatically removed. 

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IAM Insights Dashboard

Ou revolutionary IAM Insights Dashboard is a powerful real-time analytics tool that helps organizations monitor their IAM environment and identify potential issues. Receive up-to-the-second cloud-based metrics and alerts on user activity, compliance, and risk. Clients get the benefit of data-driven decisions and can proactively mitigate threats.

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Lifecycle Auto Fulfillment 

IDMWORKS unlocks the benefits of Lifecycle Auto Fulfillment solutions, such as streamlining access management processes, reducing operational costs, enhancing security, ensuring regulatory compliance, and improving scalability and flexibility. Our product works seamlessly with any application that has an administrative process, regardless of API access or existing APIs.

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Manage

Taking identity MSP to new heights - the cloud!

IDMWORKS has taken something painfully complicated… and simplified it. We partner with clients as a Managed Service Provider (MSP) in Identity and Access, with a level of automation and customization that no-one else can offer. 

First, we optimize IAM programs to new levels of scale, performance, convenience and security. Our on-site or hybrid models combine your infrastructure with our hands-on skills in identity management, cybersecurity and IT infrastructure.

Or we can take it to the next level—leveraging the cloud and reducing your capital investment in infrastructure.

Our unique approach to Managed Identity lets you focus on your core business. It reduces development time, improves quick-connect functionality, guarantees regulatory compliance, and results in a cost-effective and predictably-priced IAM solution.

On-premise, hybrid or cloud? What’s right for you?

IDMWORKS is a Managed Services Provider (MSP) for identity. We work with a rich diversity of clients across the spectrum when it comes to infrastructure.

Your identity infrastructure could be on your premises or hybrid. We’re responsible for processes like policies and governance, user provisioning, authentication and access control. Clients retain ownership of their infrastructure, while leveraging our capacity and IAM expertise.

As you scale, you may want to consider a cloud-based subscription model with less on-premises infrastructure. The benefits are fast deployment, lower initial capital outlay, infinite scalability and robust compliance.

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