Identity Access Management (IAM) Consulting Services

Ensure the right people have the right access

A modern Identity Access Management strategy will level-up your processes so you can provide better audit trails, safeguard your data, and make it easier to meet compliance requirements.

Identity Access Management (IAM) is a comprehensive framework for organizations to manage the identities and access of all their users, including internal employees and external vendors. At Centric Consulting, our Identity Access Management consulting services go beyond just helping manage user credentials. We audit access to systems, data, and applications across your organization to ensure access rights are consistent with roles, policies, and regulatory requirements.

Our primary focus is helping nail down all IAM processes before jumping into tool implementation — in fact, we don’t partner with any specific providers, giving us the ability to make truly unbiased recommendations based on what’s best for your company. Identity Access Management consulting services are ideal for organizations facing issues like:

Flagged audit findings: If your organization has been flagged for IAM-related deficiencies, we can provide remediation strategies to bring your systems back into compliance.
Tool onboarding and usage: Many businesses adopt IAM tools without a clear strategy, leading to inefficiencies and poor adoption. We help optimize your processes, ensuring your tools work for you, not against you.
Regulatory compliance: Whether it’s meeting Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) requirements, healthcare regulations (HIPAA), or financial standards (FFIEC), we ensure your IAM framework meets all relevant compliance demands.
SOC 2 certification: We guide companies through the SOC 2 certification process by ensuring their IAM controls align with security, availability, and confidentiality requirements, helping you prove your ability to safeguard sensitive data.

Cybersecurity Consulting That Addresses Top Threats

Organizations face many cyber threats that severely impact operations, data integrity, and reputation. As bad actors continually evolve their tactics, we advance our own capabilities to help you stay vigilant. Our cybersecurity consulting services fortify defenses across:

Investing in Security

Companies with incident response (IR) teams and robust security testing save $248,000 per year on average, while those with IAM solutions save up to $223,000 each year, according to Security Intelligence.

(Security Intelligence: Cost of a data breach 2024)

Decades of Cross-Sector Experience

We’ve been working in IAM since the early 2000s, helping companies implement identity access management solutions long before others even realized the need. From Fortune 500 companies to heavily regulated industries like healthcare and financial services, we have experience in designing and optimizing IAM programs that meet the most stringent of security and regulatory demands.

Unbiased, Vendor-Agnostic Approach

Many firms approach IAM by pushing specific software solutions. We believe the tool should fit the process, not the other way around. Our focus is on designing a tailored IAM strategy for your organization, built around your unique requirements and long-term goals. We take a vendor-neutral stance, ensuring that your IAM framework is designed to serve your needs first — not the needs of a software provider.

Strategic Expertise Backed by Experience

Whether you’re dealing with a tangled legacy system or implementing a new IAM framework from scratch, we bring the depth of knowledge and hands-on experience needed to streamline complex identity management processes. We help you avoid common pitfalls of IAM implementation like over-permissioning or weak segregation of duties, offering strategic guidance every step of the way.

Our IAM Consulting Services

Access Provisioning & Deprovisioning

We ensure smooth, secure access control during onboarding and offboarding processes, reducing risks from over-permissioning or unauthorized access.

We’ll create a system that automatically assigns the correct access rights to new employees or contractors and promptly revokes access when they leave or no longer need it.

Access Certification & Reviews

We conduct periodic and ongoing reviews to verify that users’ access remains aligned with their role, keeping your organization compliant with both internal governance policies and external regulations.

Segregation of Duties (SoD) Management

We help you prevent conflicts of interest by designing access controls that enforce the separation of critical functions within your business, ensuring compliance with regulatory mandates such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX).

Privileged Access Management (PAM)

We assist in monitoring and controlling administrative privileges across your systems, reducing the risk of internal threats and ensuring critical tasks are only performed by authorized personnel.

Control and monitor elevated or administrative access to reduce the risk of unauthorized or malicious actions within your systems.

Job Role Transfers & Escalated Privilege

As employees change roles, we ensure their access rights are adjusted accordingly, preventing the accumulation of unnecessary or risky privileges.

We also manage escalated privileges securely, auditing their use to prevent misuse or breaches.

IAM Support Team

If you don’t have sufficient internal IAM resources in place, we can supply the right team to help you manage your most sensitive data through robust access controls.

We’ll ensure only authorized individuals can access critical resources, prevent credential misuse, and conduct regular access reviews to help you strengthen and maintain your security posture.

How Our IAM Consulting Process Works

We’ve worked with organizations like Ally Financial and BMW, demonstrating our ability to compete — and win — against larger consulting firms due to our process-driven, client-centric approach. We successfully deliver IAM services that streamline access management, improve security, and ensure compliance for clients in highly regulated industries. Our Identity Access Management consulting process is designed to address your organization’s specific challenges and goals:

1. Discovery and Gap Analysis:

We begin by assessing your current IAM processes and identifying gaps in compliance, security, or operational efficiency. Whether you are managing users via spreadsheets or using outdated systems, our experts provide a clear roadmap for improvement.

2. Strategy and Design: Based

on our analysis, we design an IAM strategy tailored to your business. This includes defining access policies, provisioning procedures, and privileged access management protocols. We’ll create a strategy that can scale while staying compliant.

3. Tool Recommendations (Vendor-Agnostic):

After the strategy is established, we recommend tools that align with your business needs. While we don’t perform tool implementation, we work closely with your team and vendors to ensure the solution integrates smoothly with your infrastructure.

3. Tool Recommendations (Vendor-Agnostic):

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