IAM Strategy & Access Governance

Identity governance that closes access gaps without slowing the business.

Least privilege, segregation of duties, and user access reviews that auditors accept — designed for Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, and identity governance platforms such as SailPoint and Okta.

Who this is for

Organizations where access is the recurring audit finding.

Terminated users still enabled. Privileged accounts without approval trails. Quarterly access reviews that reviewers rubber-stamp because the report is unreadable. These are the findings that repeat year after year in SOX, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 audits, and they are almost always symptoms of missing governance rather than missing technology. We help IT, security, and internal audit leaders design the identity governance layer — roles, ownership, review cadence, and evidence — and then implement it in the tooling you already own.

What you get

A governed identity lifecycle, end to end.

  • Identity governance assessment — current-state review of joiner/mover/leaver processes, privileged access, service accounts, and review practices, mapped to NIST SP 800-53 AC and IA families, CIS Controls 5 and 6, and ISO 27001 A.5.15–A.5.18.
  • Role and entitlement model — business-role definitions, birthright versus requestable access, and a segregation-of-duties conflict matrix for your financially significant and CUI systems.
  • Privileged access design — Entra ID Privileged Identity Management, conditional access, and just-in-time elevation configured to least-privilege baselines, with break-glass procedures documented.
  • User access review program — a review process reviewers can actually complete: risk-tiered scope, readable certification packages, documented decisions, and remediation tracking.
  • Identity governance platform advisory — requirements, vendor evaluation, and implementation governance for SailPoint IdentityIQ, Okta Identity Governance, or Entra ID Governance, including automated de-provisioning timelines and data stewardship baselines.
How we work

Governance first, tooling second.

1

Inventory identities

Human, service, and privileged accounts across every in-scope system, with owners assigned. Most organizations find 15–30% more accounts than they expected.

2

Define the model

Roles, approval paths, SoD rules, and review tiers agreed with business owners — because access governance fails when only IT owns it.

3

Implement and evidence

Configure PIM, conditional access, lifecycle automation, and review workflows; then run one full cycle with you and package the evidence for the next audit.

Make the access finding disappear for good.

Bring your last audit report. We will show you which controls fix the root cause.