Is Uncontrolled Identity and Access Your Biggest Security Risk?
Identity is the new perimeter. The overwhelming majority of data breaches involve compromised credentials, excessive access privileges, or inadequate authentication controls. Yet in most organizations, identity and access management is a patchwork of legacy systems, manual provisioning processes, and inconsistently enforced policies — creating significant exposure that attackers actively exploit.
Full On Consulting's identity and access management (IAM) consulting practice helps organizations design and implement modern, zero-trust identity frameworks that ensure only the right people have the right access — to the right systems, at the right time. Our senior consultants bring deep enterprise IT experience; they have managed IAM programs at scale and understand both the technical complexity and the organizational change required to do this well.
We work across the full IAM landscape — from single sign-on (SSO) and multi-factor authentication (MFA) implementation to comprehensive privileged access management (PAM), identity governance, and zero-trust architecture. We are experienced with leading IAM platforms including Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), Okta, CyberArk, SailPoint, and others — and we design solutions that integrate with your existing technology stack rather than requiring a rip-and-replace.
Every IAM engagement begins with a thorough current-state assessment — inventorying your identity stores, mapping access entitlements, and identifying the highest-risk gaps. From there, we design a target-state IAM architecture and a phased implementation roadmap that delivers security improvements incrementally while minimizing disruption to users and operations. The result is an identity foundation that actively reduces your attack surface and supports both security and compliance objectives.
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Common Identity & Access Management Challenges
Identity-related vulnerabilities are present in the overwhelming majority of significant breaches — and most organizations have more IAM risk than their security teams realize. These are the patterns we find most consistently.
Over-Privileged Accounts Everywhere
Access permissions are assigned for specific projects or operational needs and never reclaimed. Users accumulate privileges over time through role changes, project assignments, and system migrations. Local admin rights are granted freely to reduce IT friction. The result is an environment where a single compromised credential gives attackers broad access to critical systems.
MFA Not Enforced Consistently
Multi-factor authentication is enabled on some systems but not others — legacy applications, VPN exceptions for remote workers, service accounts, and administrative consoles that "break" with MFA enforced. The weakest authentication point in the environment defines your actual exposure. Attackers find the gaps that MFA enforcement reviews consistently miss.
Shared Credentials and Service Account Sprawl
Application-to-application integrations, automated processes, and legacy systems run on shared service accounts with static, rarely-rotated passwords stored in spreadsheets or documentation. No one knows which systems depend on which credentials — making rotation risky and leaving standing privileged access that attackers specifically target for lateral movement.
No Formal Access Review Process
User access is provisioned when employees are hired and almost never revisited until they leave — and even then, deprovisioning is inconsistent. Former employees, contractors, and partners retain active accounts. Privileged access granted for one-time projects is never removed. Compliance frameworks require periodic access certification; organizations cannot demonstrate they have one.
Identity Sprawl Across SaaS Applications
The SaaS portfolio has expanded rapidly, but identity has not kept pace. Each application has its own user store, its own authentication requirements, and its own access model. There is no central identity directory, no SSO integration, and no unified view of who has access to what. Offboarding a departing employee requires a manual checklist that is never fully complete.
Privileged Access Management Gaps
Domain administrator credentials, database administrator accounts, and cloud root accounts are not vaulted, not monitored, and not subject to just-in-time access controls. Standing privileged access is the highest-value target for both external attackers and malicious insiders — and most organizations have far more of it than their security teams appreciate.
Our Proven IAM Implementation Approach
A structured zero-trust identity methodology that delivers measurable risk reduction at each phase — starting with the highest-risk gaps and building toward a comprehensive identity governance capability.
Identity Inventory & Assessment
Conduct a comprehensive inventory of your identity landscape — user accounts, service accounts, privileged accounts, authentication methods, and access entitlements across on-premises and cloud environments — to establish a complete picture of your identity attack surface.
Zero Trust Architecture Design
Design a target-state zero-trust identity architecture — defining the identity providers, SSO federation model, MFA policies, PAM architecture, and governance processes that will implement continuous verification and least-privilege access across your environment.
IAM Platform Selection & Configuration
Select and configure the IAM platform that best fits your environment — Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, or others — integrating with your application portfolio through SSO federation and establishing the identity foundation that downstream PAM, governance, and MFA capabilities will depend on.
PAM & MFA Implementation
Implement privileged access management controls — credential vaulting, just-in-time access, session recording, and service account management — alongside MFA enforcement across the full application portfolio, including the legacy and exception cases that most MFA rollouts leave exposed.
Identity Governance & Access Reviews
Establish ongoing identity governance — role-based access control, automated provisioning and deprovisioning, periodic access certification campaigns, and segregation of duties controls — so access remains appropriate, current, and auditable as your organization and application portfolio evolve.
IAM Programs That Reduce Real Risk
IT Transformation Program — $40M in Documented Savings
A comprehensive IT transformation that included enterprise-scale identity and access management improvements across a global organization — standardizing authentication, strengthening privileged access controls, and establishing identity governance at scale as part of a broader technology modernization that delivered $40M in savings.
Read the Case Study →Disaster Recovery Project — $40M Loss Prevented
A business continuity and disaster recovery program that depended on robust identity and access controls to ensure the right people had the right access during a critical recovery event — and that the recovery environment itself was protected from unauthorized access during a period of elevated operational risk.
Read the Case Study →Our Identity & Access Management Services
IAM ASSESSMENT & STRATEGY
A comprehensive review of your current identity environment — identity stores, authentication methods, access entitlements, provisioning processes, and governance controls — identifying the highest-risk gaps and defining a target-state IAM architecture.
SSO & MFA IMPLEMENTATION
Design and implementation of single sign-on (SSO) and multi-factor authentication (MFA) across your application portfolio — improving security and user experience simultaneously while reducing password-related support costs and credential exposure risk.
PRIVILEGED ACCESS MANAGEMENT
Implementation of privileged access management (PAM) controls that protect your most sensitive systems — vaulting privileged credentials, enforcing just-in-time access, recording privileged sessions, and eliminating standing admin access that attackers actively target.
IDENTITY GOVERNANCE
Design and implementation of identity governance processes — including role-based access control (RBAC), access certification campaigns, segregation of duties controls, and automated provisioning/deprovisioning — to ensure access is appropriate, current, and auditable.
ZERO-TRUST ARCHITECTURE
Design and implementation of zero-trust security frameworks that treat every access request as untrusted regardless of network location — implementing continuous verification, least-privilege access, and microsegmentation to protect against lateral movement and insider threats.
IAM COMPLIANCE SUPPORT
IAM controls designed to meet the access management requirements of key compliance frameworks — SOX, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOC 2, and others — with audit-ready documentation, access certification evidence, and controls testing support that reduces audit preparation burden.
IAM Advisors Who Have Managed Enterprise Identity Programs
18,000
Users managed in enterprise identity and access transformations
20+
Years of enterprise IT and security leadership experience
100%
Senior consultants — no junior staff on your IAM engagement
WHY FULL ON CONSULTING
Senior Consultants Only
Every engagement is led and delivered by senior consultants — former CIOs, CTOs, and enterprise IT executives. You get the people you were sold, not a bait-and-switch to junior staff after the contract is signed.
$40M+ in Documented Savings
Our track record includes $40M+ in verified client savings, a $130M M&A integration across 90+ global facilities, and an end-user computing transformation for 18,000 employees. We deliver measurable outcomes — not just recommendations.
20+ Years of Enterprise Experience
Our consultants average 20+ years of enterprise IT experience across Fortune 500 and mid-market companies. We have run the same programs we are being asked to lead — across SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and large-scale transformations.
Strategy Through Execution
We do not hand you a strategy deck and walk away. Our teams stay engaged from initial assessment through go-live — accountable for outcomes, not just deliverables. If we recommend it, we are prepared to execute it.
Boutique Agility
As a boutique firm, we move faster, adapt to your priorities, and work with your team rather than around it. No bureaucracy, no layers of overhead — just focused, senior-led execution from day one.
A Partner, Not a Vendor
We build long-term relationships grounded in trust and integrity. Many of our clients have engaged us across multiple initiatives and refer us to peers — because we do what we say we will do, every time.