Identity & Access Management (IAM) Services

The Cybersecurity Challenge
At A Glance

Identity sits at the center of every breach story. Accounts sprawl across SaaS and cloud, credentials are phished or reused, machine and service identities multiply, and privileged access lingers far longer than it should.

Without a practical IAM program—strong authentication, clean access models, and real governance—risk creeps in quietly and shows up loudly during incidents and audits. Forgepath helps you regain control.

24 %

of breaches begin with stolen credentials—still the top initial action in 2024 incidents.

97.2 %

of account-compromise attacks could have been blocked via a secure MFA control.

100 +

apps per company on average—identity sprawl demands centralized SSO and governance.

65 %

of people reuse passwords across different accounts, keeping credential-stuffing effective.

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We Deliver Practical IAM Services That Fit How You Work

From quick wins to program upgrades, we focus on controls people can follow—so access stays secure and audits go smoothly.

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Professional Services

Access Management Review

We examine how users, contractors, and machine identities authenticate and get access across SaaS, cloud, and on-prem systems. You’ll see where SSO and MFA are missing, where access models are too permissive, and where governance or logging gaps create risk—plus a prioritized plan to fix them.

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Privileged Access Management (PAM)

We help you reduce standing privilege and protect admin access with vaulting, just-in-time elevation, session monitoring, and break-glass controls. The result is tighter control over high-risk actions, clearer evidence for audits, and fewer avenues for attackers to move laterally.

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Six-Step Framework

Our Identity & Access Management Methodology

A modular approach that works for assessments, quick wins, and full IAM upgrades. We align to your risk tolerance and regulatory obligations, prioritize the controls that move risk fastest, and provide adoption guidance and evidence you can take to auditors.

Step 1

Objectives, Scope & Success Criteria

Align outcomes and boundaries before changing controls

We clarify business goals, risk drivers, in-scope systems/apps, and what “good” looks like for identity, access, and audit evidence.

Goals For this Phase:

Define success metrics (e.g., MFA coverage, SSO coverage, privileged accounts reduced)
Confirm scope, timelines, and change windows
Identify stakeholders across security, IT, app owners, and HR/legal

Step 2

Identity Inventory & Access Mapping

Make the access picture visible—humans and machines

We map identities (workforce, third-party, service accounts), authentication methods, entitlements, group roles, and trust boundaries across SaaS, cloud, and on-prem.

Goals For this Phase:

Catalog identities and high-risk entitlements
Identify SSO/MFA gaps and legacy auth exposure
Flag excessive privilege and orphaned accounts

Step 3

Control Design & Governance

Choose controls people can actually follow

We design or refine SSO, MFA (including phish-resistant options), access request/approval flows, role models, and review cadences—plus PAM guardrails for admins and service accounts.

Goals For this Phase:

Define target policies, enrollment patterns, and exception handling
Establish role/attribute models and access-review schedules
Specify PAM patterns: vaulting, JIT, session oversight, break-glass

Step 4

Implementation & Migration

Roll out without breaking workflows

We phase deployments, integrate apps to SSO, enforce step-up/MFA, migrate high-risk admins to PAM, and tune change communications for minimal disruption.

Goals For this Phase:

Increase SSO/MFA coverage quickly with low-friction onboarding
Reduce standing privilege and legacy protocols
Document procedures and evidence sources as you go

Step 5

Hardening, Monitoring & Detection

Prove controls work under pressure

We add detections for risky activity (impossible travel, MFA fatigue, role abuse), tune alerts for signal-to-noise, and validate audit logs and retention.

Goals For this Phase:

Close logging gaps and validate alert routing/escalation
Test abuse scenarios and adjust controls
Produce acceptance criteria for ongoing monitoring

Step 6

Adoption, Metrics & Re-Testing

Lock in outcomes and keep improving

We measure coverage and effectiveness, run access reviews, and re-test critical fixes—then hand teams a cadence for continuous improvement.

Goals For this Phase:

Track identity KPIs (SSO/MFA coverage, privileged accounts, stale access)
Complete initial access reviews with remediation
Re-test critical items and finalize executive reporting

IAM Key Benefits

What You Can Expect

Compromise Risk Down, Fast

SSO + MFA where it matters most, with legacy auth and standing privilege reduced.

Clean, Defensible Access

Clear role/attribute models and review cadences that auditors can follow.

Admin Access Under Control

PAM patterns (vaulting, JIT, session oversight) that shrink lateral-movement paths.

Better Signal, Less Noise

Tuned detections and logs that help ops teams respond sooner.

Smoother Onboarding/Offboarding

Fewer tickets and faster time-to-access for users and contractors.

Executive-Ready Evidence

Metrics and artifacts that show measurable progress quarter to quarter.

Cloud Systems & Security Manager

Zero.health

Working With Forgepath

Forgepath delivered outstanding service on our network and app security tests.
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Cloud Systems & Security Manager
Zero.health

Forgepath delivered outstanding service on both our network penetration test and application security assessment.

When a critical customer need arose, they quickly adjusted their schedule to meet our urgent timeline without compromising quality.

Their technical expertise, clear guidance, and hands-on remediation support helped us meet our EOY goals efficiently.

We were especially impressed by their flexibility, responsiveness, and professionalism throughout the process.

Chief Executive Officer

parsysco.com

Working With Forgepath

Forgepath separates themselves from the rest as they’re a true security partner.
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Chief Executive Officer
parsysco.com

Forgepath separates themselves from the rest as they’re a true security partner to Parsysco. They took the time to understand our requirements and how things were working with our previous provider.

We were impressed by how quickly they formulated a new strategy and approach. They helped us identify our challenges and consistently brought forward solutions that were in Parsysco’s best interest.

Most vendors only care about selling something, Forgepath took the personal relationship and partnership approach that we value greatly.

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Modernize IAM Without Slowing the Business

From quick-hit coverage gains to full program upgrades, Forgepath helps you close identity gaps and prove it through measurable IAM metrics and evidence.

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Frequently Asked  Questions

Workforce, contractor, and service/machine accounts across SaaS, cloud, and on-prem—plus the governance processes that control them.

Yes. We use low-friction enrollment, clear comms, and phased enforcement—prioritizing high-risk users and apps first, then expanding.

We provide patterns such as connectors, reverse proxies, or staged deprecation—so SSO/MFA coverage grows without breaking critical workflows.

Vaulted credentials, just-in-time elevation, session recording for high-risk activities, and well-defined break-glass—plus metrics to prove standing privilege is shrinking.

Quarterly for high-risk roles and systems; at least semi-annually elsewhere, or as required by your regulators and customers.

This will vary from engagement to engagement but, you should expect one or more of the following: prioritized roadmap, target control designs, implementation guidance, tuned detections and logs, access-review templates, and executive-ready reporting with metrics.