Engagement Options
Identity Management Rapid Assessment
How does your organization 'rate' when it comes to its Identity Management posture? Do you have, or are you putting in place, the required components, services, and related audit trails
to support your legal and fiscal responsibilities?
Burton Group provides a focused assessment of your IdM infrastructure and strategy in the form of an Identity Management Rapid Assessment (IDMRA). Our 20 years of identity management expertise has allowed us to create a thorough understanding of IdM technology and deployment best practices. We use this knowledge to assess your near-term and long-term strategies and help build the cornerstone of your security infrastructure.
The outcome of this short-term engagement provides you with a thorough understanding of your organization's strengths and weaknesses with respect to how your infrastructure manages user identities - whether these users are employees, contractors, consultants,
business partners, visitors, customers, or others. This assessment examines how user identity lifecycles are managed; how information entitlements are assigned, monitored and revoked;
how user identity data is propagated to the multiple systems and applications that comprise your IT infrastructure; and how user identities are audited.
We accomplish this assessment by electronically surveying up to 12 key 'stakeholders' drawn from cross-functional groups including IT, Security, Architecture, Human Resources, Application Development, Networking, Enterprise Resource Planning, Customer Services, and other Line of Business executives concerned with identity management. We'll even help you identify the right people to survey. We also review the relevant enterprise identity management design and architecture documents maintained by your organization in order to get a quick yet thorough understanding of your identity management infrastructure and
strategy.
Specific topics investigated include:
- User lifecycle management
- Automated and manual account and entitlement provisioning
- User authentication
- User authorization
- Roles and access management
- Directory services
- Identity content and data integration
- Federated identity management
- Identity auditing
After receiving the completed surveys and reviewing your documentation, Burton Group consultants will spend one full day on-site with your team to review the survey responses and correlate this information with your documented infrastructure and strategy.
Following the on-site meeting, Burton Group will provide you with a 15 to 20 page written assessment. The assessment will include a series of tactical and strategic recommendations, focused on the specific topics above, to move your identity management infrastructure forward. All Burton Group recommendations are based on industry best practices, technological capabilities, your organization's unique requirements, and other specific findings of the assessment.
To start this engagement:
If you work in the Eastern US or Europe, call Homan Farahmand at 905.952.0966
If you work in the Western US or Asia Pacific, call Doug Simmons at 831.429.4001
Other Engagement Options for: Identity and Security Services