Enterprise Identity Management Strategy

The cost of provisioning and managing multiple user accounts within an enterprise IT environment can be staggering. There are a number of business and technical benefits from implementing a sound Identity Management (IdM) Strategy. However, there is a myriad of decisions to be made when selecting and implementing an identity management system including:

• Should the architecture of the IdM system serve internal users or should it be designed to serve external users?
• What systems and platforms will the IdM system need to integrate with?
• Should I choose an IdM platform from single vendor or choose a best-of-breed solution approach?
• Should the IdM system utilize strong (multi-factor) authentication technologies or will a traditional user / password based authentication approach be sufficient?
• How relevant is Identity Federation to our business requirements?

These are just a few of the questions that an organization needs to answer as they develop their Enterprise Identity Management Strategy.

Avaleris’ Enterprise Identity Management Strategy service offering is designed to help large commercial and/or government organizations work through these questions and determine what the right strategy is to best satisfy their unique business requirements and constraints. Avaleris consultants will assist clients in determining the correct strategy in accordance with organizational business drivers.

While this service offering is tailored to the individual requirements of each organization, it may include elements of the followings:

• Baseline Assessment and Environment Review
• IdM Requirements Definition
• IdM Market Assessment and Survey
• Standards and Trends Identification
• IdM Project Scoping and Planning
• Feasibility and Cost Analysis

The benefits of Avaleris’ Enterprise Identity Management Strategy service offering to our clients is the appropriate IdM strategy may be determined before embarking on a potentially costly project with significant impact on all core IT systems. Furthermore, this service offering may be used to lay the foundation for embarking on a full identity management project.