IAM Case Study
About The Client
The SDG client is a top US-based multinational, diversified conglomerate with products and services ranging from jet engines to power generation, financial services to water processing, and medical imaging to media content. The company serves customers in more than 100 countries and initially engaged SDG to perform analysis of their digital security infrastructure and application architecture.
Project Considerations
As part of the client’s global digital security program, an enterprise-wide Identity Management (IDM) initiative was introduced. The primary objective of the project involved building a highly available, secure environment and designing a migration strategy for moving current applications to a global IDM framework
The solution needed to address the client’s complex business, IT, audit, compliance, and operational challenges, including:
Procedural problems, manual handover-takeover tasks, and unpredictable duration of the identity provisioning processes
Insufficient developer support
Lack of automated connectors for integration with source or target systems
Data quality issues in source systems (e.g. ETH: catalog containing descriptions and dataset of external employees, contractors and suppliers)
Ineffective support of compliance and internal audit functions (segregation of duties) and inadequate reporting functionality
Missing arching functions (expanding database)
Architectural problems that could not be addressed with existing solutions
Complex role lifecycle management processes and nested and redundant role profiles
Key Solution Features
After careful consideration of multiple vendors, the client chose SDG to design, architect, and help implement a platform that provided unified, enterprise-wide management of identity lifecycle processes that addressed their challenges on a global scale.
Considering the client’s extensive user base, the solution requirements, and the project resource parameters, SDG developed a comprehensive situation analysis and solution recommendation addressing their IDM infrastructure needs associated with:
The Results
The SDG platform now provides unified management for identity lifecycle processes:
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About SDG
SDG is a global cybersecurity, identity governance, risk consulting, and advisory firm that advises and partners with clients to address their complex security, compliance, and technology needs and delivers on strategy, transformation, and long-term management of their cybersecurity and IAM programs.
About TruOps
TruOps is a global provider of audit, compliance, and cyber risk management software and managed service solutions that enable organizations to identify, report, manage, and mitigate enterprise-wide IT and regulatory risk. Comprised of highly integrated modules, the TruOps Integrated Risk Management platform is a flexible, easy-to-deploy and operate cloud solution. TruOps reduces risk management complexity, streamlines the risk assessment process, and delivers comprehensive, real-time awareness and insight of risk across the internal organization and its extended third-party environment. For TruOps clients that means confidence and assurance in their ability to make informed risk decisions to securely grow their business.
