Field notes, by Vidyaa Ganesh
Making sense of identity & access management.
Practitioner-led writing and tools for the teams making critical decisions about identity.
Fig. The IAM territory
Maturity profile
Each numbered point is a domain, placed by its Axis maturity. The further from center, the closer to optimized.
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Instrument 01 · Axis
A clearer read on your IAM program. In 15 minutes.
A research-backed maturity assessment. It covers nine IAM domains, maps to more than twenty compliance frameworks, quantifies risk using FAIR, and turns the result into an executive-ready report.
35
Questions
9
IAM Domains
20+
Frameworks
15
Minutes
Fig. 1: Sample maturity, nine domains
FAIR
Instrument 02 · Architecture
A practitioner’s map of how IAM actually works.
Nine domains, eight frameworks, and the patterns that separate programs that hold up from ones that look good on paper, with the real failure modes and inter-domain dependencies mapped.
9
Domains
8
Frameworks
14
Dependencies
Fig. 2: Dependencies