Identity and Access Management

Security, compliance and efficiency with IAM services

Identity and access management is critical to securing data and systems, and the vast array of technologies, situations, and human and machine scenarios make this a complex challenge.

Streamline the undertaking with identity and security experts to help you define and manage solutions across hybrid cloud environments, transform governance workflows and demonstrate compliance.

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Capabilities

Enterprise identity and access management services

Enterprise IAM services include assessment and strategy to optimize the organization’s identity and access program, with a prioritized list of projects to execute on time and within budget requirements. With an optimized program, organizations can manage end-user access to trending apps and tools, protect sensitive information and manage regulatory requirements.

Consumer identity and access management

Consumer IAM services include a full range of services from adoption strategy and assessment, implementation, integration, managed services and fully on-demand operations to help organizations execute a modern consumer identity access management program.

Use cases

Controlling costs at a North American utility

IBM’s IAM security team helped transform the utility company with an enterprise cloud IAM solution, helping them move to a more cost-effective business model and more efficient and streamlined IAM processes.

Re-envisioning a large food and beverage manufacturer

The IBM security services team automated 95% of the company’s user access requests, improved security posture, reduced audit and compliance gaps and decreased the software and operational cost of managing IAM solutions.

Modernizing applications for a South American financial institution

With 25 separate IAM solutions managing 95,000 identities, the institution teamed with IBM's IAM services experts to streamline the onboarding process and gain stronger levels of control of critical functions.

Meet our experts

Anna Fernezian

Anna is an identity management specialist with over 20 years of experience. Her background includes roles in the financial, healthcare, and government sectors, and she’s highly skilled at producing solutions that exceed client needs. Combined with her expertise in cloud and platform security, Anna delivers excellence to clients worldwide.

Matt Cass

Matt is responsible for identity and access management, data and application security and cloud and platform security practices in IBM Consulting, Cybersecurity Services. He brings over 25 years of experience helping global organizations transform their cybersecurity programs into world-class operations through innovative solutions and operational effectiveness.

Jayesh Kamat

Jayesh is a global product management leader for IBM Consulting, Cybersecurity Services’ Cyber Trust portfolio. He has over 22 years of experience in designing and delivering cybersecurity services to clients across the world, drawing from a wide breadth of technical knowledge across industries and security domains.

Derek Gordon

Derek has over 24 years of experience in information security, consulting, product management and professional service leadership. He is results-driven, with deep knowledge of privileged access, access management, identity management and access governance services. As the Center of Competency Leader for EMEA, Derek continually delivers excellence to clients and partners.

Resources

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