Abstract

This guide was written for identity and access management (IAM) champions and identity management project leads in order to provide you with a sound methodology for developing an enterprise-wide username convention for your organization as part of a new IAM deployment, replacement solution, or system modernization. If your organization has more than one set of credentials for your different systems and applications, this guide will help you consolidate them into a single enterprise-wide username convention.

As your organization’s IAM champion, you will need to engage with key players across your organization, including department and business owners who manage data sources and application targets of the IAM system, decision-makers within senior management and at the C-level, and the end-users who provide usability validations. This guide highlights the stakeholder groups involved in each step of the process to ensure you engage with the right people, at the right time.

The methodology presented in this guide is not absolute. You will need to adapt the steps in this guide to fit your organization’s particular needs and situation. And while there is no way to fully future-proof a username convention, following the steps in this guide will help set your organization up for success.

Links

• Identity Automation

Citation

Moreland, T., 2017. Definitive Guide to Account Username Conventions. Identity Automation.