Vendor-neutral advisory · Station 1 on the IAM journey
IAM Maturity Assessment
Do you know where you stand?
Before you invest in processes, products, or projects, one question needs an answer: how mature is your identity and access governance today? We give you an honest, documented picture of strengths, weaknesses, and risks – and a roadmap to the next maturity level that your management can act on.
Why measure maturity?
You can't prioritize what you haven't measured
- Prioritization requires a shared picture. Without a documented baseline, IAM investments are driven by gut feeling, and the effort rarely lands where it creates the most value.
- Compliance requires documentation. NIS2, ISO 27001, and GDPR all presume verifiable control over who has access to what. The assessment shows exactly where your biggest gaps are.
- Complexity grows from within. Hybrid environments, more systems, and accumulated entitlements expand the attack surface year by year. Weak points must be found before they become incidents.
- Management is now accountable. Under NIS2, access governance is a management responsibility. A maturity assessment gives your board and executives the decision-making basis they are now required to have.
The maturity staircase: from Ad hoc to Optimized. The assessment places you on it, and the roadmap shows the way up.
Method
Four dimensions we measure
Identity lifecycle
On-, re-, and offboarding (JML): does access follow the employee – or does it linger?
Access governance
Roles, requests, and approvals: who decides who gets access, and is it documented?
Privileged access
Admin accounts and critical systems: the accounts an attack does the most damage with.
Governance & compliance
Recertification, segregation of duties (SoD), and audit trail: can you prove the controls work?
The engagement
How it works
01 · Pre-analysis
We start with your business, not your systems
A short workshop on your business, goals, and current setup, so the assessment measures what matters to you.
02 · Data collection
Interviews, documentation and a look inside the systems
Interviews with key people, review of documentation and, where it adds value, a Technical Review that reads the entitlements straight out of the systems, so the assessment has numbers behind it.
03 · Analysis
Four dimensions, measured against best practice
Maturity rating across the four dimensions using our IAM Maturity Model, measured against best practice and international standards.
04 · Report and presentation
Ready for the executive team or the board
A tailored report with recommendations – and a presentation ready for your executive team or board.
Deliverables
What you get
Status report
Your maturity level, documented and measured against best practice – the shared picture all prioritization starts from.
Gap analysis
The critical gaps and risks, tied to concrete actions – not a generic list of shortcomings.
Roadmap
Recommendations for reaching the next maturity level, technical and organizational, in priority order.
Executive presentation
Ready for the conversation with your executive team or board – so the report doesn't end up in a drawer.
Why IAM Group
An assessment with no hidden agenda
- Specialized in IAM. Identity & Access Management is all we do.
- Vendor-neutral assessment. The roadmap points to your needs – not to a product. The conclusion may just as well be process work or PAM as an IGA platform.
- We know the market and the pitfalls from both advisory and implementation – the recommendations are proven in practice.
- Deliverables you can use from day one – ready for management and the board.
Our view
A maturity assessment is not a report card. It is a prioritised list of what to do first.
That is why ours ends with a roadmap your management can act on, not with a score nobody can use on Monday morning.
The next station on the journey
Does the roadmap point to IGA?
Then our IGA Ready pre-implementation project is the natural next step. The gap analysis and roadmap from your Maturity Assessment feed directly into IGA Ready's first phase – you don't pay for the same work twice.
Read about IGA ReadyGood to know
- Pricing: Time & Materials. You get a concrete estimate after an initial dialogue, so you know the budget before you begin.
- Your effort: access to key people for interviews and an internal coordinator – we handle the rest.
- Numbers behind the assessment: if you want the entitlements read straight out of the systems, we include a Technical Review in the data collection. The assessment then rests on data and not only on interviews.
Materials
Download the material
Share it with colleagues or management – brief or in depth, depending on who's asking.
One-pager: IAM Maturity Assessment
A quick overview of the process, deliverables, and outcome, ready to share internally.
Whitepaper: IAM Maturity Assessment
An in-depth walkthrough of the method, the maturity ladder, and how to use the report.
Find out where you stand
A no-obligation dialogue about your setup is the fastest way to get started.