Implementation & Integration of Identity & Access Management Solutions
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Deep expertise ensures that your IAM infrastructure is secure, efficient, and future-ready, seamlessly aligning with your business operations. Whether you’re building from scratch or upgrading your existing system, we ensure a smooth transition from vision to implementation.
Your IAM Project Implementation: Key Phases for Success
At iC Consult, we guide you through each critical phase of your IAM project, ensuring a smooth, secure, and efficient implementation. From designing tailored solutions to seamless integration, our proven approach ensures your IAM system is robust and future-ready.
While the phases of an IAM project aren’t always clear-cut – especially in agile environments where steps often overlap – this is how your IAM implementation journey could look:
Our design process focuses on building an IAM system tailored to your business requirements. We consider critical factors such as user interfaces, data models, process flow diagrams, system interfaces, as well as security, privacy, scalability, and availability. This ensures your IAM system is as user-friendly as it is secure.
In the design phase, the focus is on refining the functional and technical aspects of your IAM system to ensure it addresses your organization’s needs effectively. The outputs from this phase lay the groundwork for the architecture and implementation processes.
Key activities:
- Functional Design: Define user interactions, authentication workflows, and key processes like onboarding and access requests.
- Role and Access Model: Develop an access control model (e.g., RBAC, ABAC) based on roles, permissions, and policies.
Data Flow Diagrams: Map identity data flows to ensure secure and compliant handling of user information. - Compliance and Governance: Incorporate security, privacy, and regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA) into the design.
- User Interface (UI) Design: Create mockups for user-facing components like login screens and self-service portals.
- Integration Planning: Define how the IAM system will integrate with existing systems, APIs, and identity providers.
In the architecture phase, we translate the design into a technical blueprint, focusing on the system’s structure and ensuring scalability, security, and performance.
Key activities:
- System Blueprint: Develop a comprehensive architecture diagram outlining how all IAM components (identity stores, authentication mechanisms, access management) interact and communicate.
- Technology Selection: Choose the specific tools and platforms that will be used, such as identity providers (IdP), access control systems, and directory services. These decisions are based on the system design and organizational needs.
- Security Framework: Define the security measures that will be embedded into the IAM system, such as encryption, multi-factor authentication (MFA), and privileged access controls.
Performance and Scalability - Planning: Ensure the architecture can handle large-scale user growth and deliver high availability. This may include setting up redundant systems or cloud-based solutions for load balancing.
The implementation phase involves developing and configuring the IAM system according to the design and architectural blueprint.
Our team develops and configures your IAM system by writing the necessary code, setting up roles, permissions, and workflows, and conducting rigorous testing. This guarantees that your IAM system is ready for real-world use and meets your organization’s security and operational requirements.
Key activities:
- System Development: Write the necessary code, configure the system, and create workflows for user roles, permissions, and authentication processes.
- Testing and Validation: Perform functional testing to verify that all IAM components work as intended. This includes stress testing, security testing, and user acceptance testing (UAT).
- Role and Policy Configuration: Implement the role-based access models, defining permissions for users, groups, and administrators in alignment with the organization’s policies.
- Pilot Rollout: Before the full launch, deploy the system in a controlled environment to a subset of users for testing and feedback.
The final phase ensures that the IAM system works harmoniously with the organization’s existing infrastructure and external services.
We integrate your new IAM system with existing systems in your organization, ensuring smooth data flow and interoperability. This includes conducting comprehensive integration tests to ensure everything works perfectly before your system goes live.
Key activities:
- System and Application Integration: Connect the IAM system with existing IT systems (e.g., HR, CRM, ERP) to automate provisioning, de-provisioning, and access management. Ensure the system can interact with external services or third-party identity providers via APIs.
- Federation and SSO: Set up identity federation protocols (e.g., SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect) and Single Sign-On (SSO) to allow seamless access across multiple platforms with a single set of credentials.
- Monitoring and Logging Setup: Implement logging and monitoring tools to track system performance, security events, and access logs in real-time for compliance and security auditing.
- Go-Live: Once everything is thoroughly tested and integrated, the system is officially launched, and monitoring tools are used to track its performance post-deployment.
Why iC Consult is the Perfect Partner for Implementing Your IAM Solution
With over two decades of expertise and a global team of IAM professionals, iC Consult is a trusted partner in delivering successful IAM implementations.
Highly Experienced and Certified Consultants
Our team brings deep expertise in IAM environments, products, and vendors, ensuring you get the most from your IAM investment.
Vendor Independence
We offer unbiased advice, helping you to choose the IAM products that best suit your business needs.
Tailored Solutions
We understand that no two organizations are alike. Our IAM solutions are customized to fit your specific business goals.
Proven Project Success
Our long-standing client relationships and history of successful project outcomes reflect the quality and reliability of our IAM services.
End-to-End Service Portfolio
We provide assessments, design, implementation, and ongoing support and operations, delivering a seamless experience across the entire IAM lifecycle.
Near- and Offshoring Capabilities
Our flexible delivery model includes nearshore and offshore options, providing cost-effective solutions without compromising on quality or expertise.
Comprehensive IAM Expertise
There are countless areas to address within IAM – and we cover them all. iC Consult offers complete coverage across the IAM landscape, ensuring no aspect is left unhandled.
Best-of-Breed Integration
We seamlessly integrate solutions from different IAM vendors, ensuring they work together efficiently across all domains.
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How Your IAM Journey Continues…
To ensure your IAM systems run smoothly and are maintained regularly, we support your IT department with 2nd and 3rd level support and take care of maintenance and continuous development of your IAM infrastructure.
Already thinking about your next IAM project? As experts in IAM strategy and implementation, we are here to guide you from the very first step. Whether it’s assessing your current IAM landscape, defining your roadmap, or setting up a new IAM program, we help turn your vision into reality.
Sit back and let us do the work! We offer fully Managed Services for IAM, which means our experts will oversee the entire process from planning to implementation to operation for you. By entrusting us with these responsibilities, you can enjoy the highest level of security and service quality. Offloading the workload from your internal IT team, you can benefit from early adoption of new functionalities while enjoying predictable monthly costs and maximum flexibility.
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Contact iC Consult today to discover how our implementation and integration services can help you secure your organization’s future.
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