Kyndryl IAM Design and Implementation Services

Kyndryl IAM Design and Implementation Services provides comprehensive Identity & Access Management (IAM) solution design, architectures, and implementation support for customers’ IAM requirements across hybrid and cloud environments by leveraging Microsoft Entra capabilities. It provides simplified user authentication, identity governance, integrations and enables secure access to resources. This offering is underpinned with Zero Trust principles and best practices.

Customer Challenges

Digital transformation drives the demand for greater agility to manage identity accounts and access permissions and provide a secure and superior user experience. Organizations face multiple challenges in effectively managing their IAM:

• Fragmented Identity Management: Organizations often struggle with managing multiple identities across on-premises and cloud environments, resulting in fragmented identity management processes, and increased administrative overhead. There is also a lack of centralized management of control / single dashboard view across their multi-cloud journey.
• Inadequate Access Controls: Organizations face challenges in enforcing consistent access controls and least privilege principles across diverse IT systems, applications, and data repositories. This complexity is growing with multi cloud environments, leading to lack of visibility to access and inherited privileges (privilege creep).
• Security Threats and Data Breaches: Organizations are more vulnerable to security threats such as phishing attacks, insider threats, and malware infections, leading to data breaches and compliance violations.
• Complexity of Compliance Management: Organizations struggle to achieve and maintain compliance with regulatory requirements such as GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and SOX due to complex compliance management processes and lack of visibility into identity-related risks.
• User Productivity and Experience: Organizations face challenges in balancing security requirements with user productivity and experience, often leading to friction in user authentication and access workflows.
• Migration to the Cloud: Organizations encounter difficulties in migrating on-premises IAM infrastructure to the cloud, including concerns around data security, interoperability, and business continuity. Inheritance of existing IAM slows down application modernization.

Value Proposition

Kyndryl IAM Design and Implementation Services is based on Zero Trust principles emphasizing continuous verification, strict access controls, and the principle of least privilege. It provides the design and implementation services for both human and non-human actors:

• End-to-End IAM Solution Design: Kyndryl’s service begins with a thorough assessment of a customer’s security requirements, compliance needs, and existing infrastructure. Based on this analysis, we design a tailored IAM solution using Microsoft IAM Entra, encompassing user provisioning, authentication, authorization, and governance.
• Unified Identity Platform: Microsoft's IAM unified platform for managing identities streamlines identity management processes and enables consistent access controls across the entire Microsoft ecosystem.
• Scalability and Flexibility: With Kyndryl’s IAM offering with Microsoft Entra, organizations can scale their identity infrastructure to meet growing business needs.
• Enhanced Security: Advanced security features including multi-factor authentication (MFA), conditional access policies, privileged identity management (PIM), identity protection capabilities, etc. to enhance enterprise security.
• Simplified User Experience: Our solution prioritizes user experience in its IAM offerings, ensuring that accessing resources and applications is intuitive and frictionless for end-users while maintaining security.
• Integration with Microsoft and other Ecosystems: We offer interoperability by leveraging Microsoft Entra for cloud-based identity management or integrating with on-premises Active Directory environments.
• Compliance and Governance: Microsoft's IAM platform includes built-in compliance features & reporting capabilities to help organizations meet regulatory requirements.

Terms, conditions, duration, and pricing are custom to each engagement. Please contact us to discuss a solution to meet your business needs.

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