Identity and access management (IAM) services

Comprehensive, secure and compliant identity and access management for the modern enterprise

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Security, compliance and efficiency with IAM services

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

With the IAM services from IBM Consulting®, you can streamline this undertaking with identity and security expertise that will help you define and manage solutions across hybrid cloud environments, transform governance workflows and demonstrate compliance.

Choosing IBM means to opt for a comprehensive, innovative IAM solution that ensures enhanced security, improved user experience and streamlined operations through the power of generative AI. With IBM’s commitment to continuous improvement and its deep-rooted expertise in cybersecurity, organizations can confidently modernize their IAM systems and stay resilient against evolving security challenges.

What is identity and access management (IAM)
Capabilities
Beyond static controls

Move from static identity controls to continuous, behavior-aware monitoring. Close gaps that traditional IAM, SIEM or endpoint-only approaches miss like stolen but valid credentials, token abuse and over-privileged accounts.

Expert-led always-available operations

Gain expert threat hunting, playbook design and continuous identity threat operations without building deep in-house ITDR expertise from scratch.

Unified visibility across identities

Eliminate uncertainties caused by fragmented identity systems. Gain a single, correlated view across all providers and endpoints, enabling earlier detection, faster investigations and a stronger enterprise security posture.

Workforce identity and access management

Our converged identity lifecycle management integrates Identity Governance & Administration (IGA), Privileged Access Management (PAM), and adaptive access controls. By leveraging identity observability and Identity posture management, we proactively detect and mitigate risks, ensuring least-privilege access and compliance across hybrid environments.

Consumer identity and access management

We accelerate Consumer Identity Management modernization through cloud-native, passwordless, and privacy-centric solutions. Our services include dynamic identity orchestration, behavioral risk-based authentication, and progressive profiling, enabling seamless user experiences while adhering to global compliance and regulatory standards.

Machine & AI Identity IAM

Securing non-human identities is critical in today’s digital landscape. We provide policy-driven access controls, automated credential lifecycle management, and continuous trust validation for APIs, bots, service accounts, and AI agents. Our solutions ensure identity integrity and compliance across multi-cloud and edge environments.

Offerings

The shift from reactive to agentic identity and access management

IBM’s AskIAM is an Agentic AI that redefines access workflows by becoming a proactive, intelligent agent within your organizations. Integrated with leading IAM platforms like Microsoft Entra, Saviynt, Verify, SailPoint, CyberArk and collaboration platforms like Microsoft Teams, Slack, AskIAM delivers Agentic AI that not only responds but initiates, recommends and automates decisions in real-time. This shift from multiple interfaces to agentic access management moves identity governance into the age of AI-driven orchestration and human-centric design.

Watch the video and see what AskIAM does for Microsoft Entra.

Turning identity intelligence into smarter, faster remediation

Identity is now a leading attack vector, with adversaries exploiting valid accounts, fragmented identity data, and slow manual analysis to evade traditional IAM tools and move undetected. As AI-driven phishing, impersonation, and rapid credential abuse accelerate, organizations struggle to correlate signals and contain threats before privilege escalation occurs. IBM’s Identity Threat Detection and Remediation (ITDR) unifies identity activity, applies deterministic risk logic, and delivers governed, automated remediation to stop attacks earlier. Acting as a digital worker, ITDR operationalizes identity threat response, while its managed detection and remediation capability continuously monitors events, investigates anomalies, and coordinates rapid containment with security and IAM teams.

Identity Threat Detection and Remediation (ITDR)
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Case studies
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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.

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Reenvisioning a large food and beverage manufacturer

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

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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.

Strategic partnerships

Microsoft, an IBM security services strategic partner

IBM AskIAM with Microsoft Entra revolutionizes identity governance through agentic AI by automating access workflows and eliminating prolonged, manual approval cycles. Using conversational AI, it offers in-chat decisions and context-on-demand enhancing productivity, adaptive security and embedded compliance.

This partnership maximizes your Microsoft investment, offering robust, scalable and innovative AI-first identity governance solutions.

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Meet our experts

Naveen Kaul
Global Leader for Identity & Access Management
Pavlos Makridakis
Associate Partner, Identity & Access Management - EMEA
Amit Agarwal
Global CyberDefend CTO, Microsoft Security
Jayesh Kamat
Program Director, Product Management Cybersecurity
Kevin Pratt
Senior Security Consultant

Insights

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IBM AskIAM for Saviynt
Discover how IBMs AskIAM’s integration with Saviynt helps organizations transform their access request and approval processes into a seamless, real-time experience.
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IDC’s Take on AskIAM
Read IDC’s point of view on how IBM AskIAM is accelerating access management capabilities to drive better business value.
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X-Force Threat Intelligence Index report 2026
Understand how threat actors are waging attacks, and how to proactively protect your organization.
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When AI Speaks Human: The Future of Identity Security
Listen to this podcast with IBM and Saviynt to learn more about identity security in the AI era.

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