Head of IAM

Mission

Assure that only the right people and entities have the right access at the right time to enable the organization to securely reach its goals.

Goals

See IAM Goals.

Responsibilities

ID	Responsibility	Domain	Category

ID	Responsibility	Domain	Category
R01	Identify key IAM stakeholders including but not limited to: Top Management, IT, Security, Compliance, Business Lines, HR, Procurement.	All	Governance
R02	Embrace Identity and Access Management holistically including all IAM domains: Workforce IAM, 3rd Party IAM, Client IAM, Object IAM, Technical IAM or PAM and Physical Access.	All	Governance
R03	Collect and prioritize IAM requirements from the key IAM stakeholders.	All	Governance
R04	Assess existing IAM capabilities, define a vision and develop a risk-based IAM strategic roadmap aligned with the organization's goals and obtain top management sponsorship for it. This implies coordination with the key IAM stakeholders.	All	Governance
R05	Assure that the IAM function and program are supervised by and report to adequate governing bodies.	All	Governance
R06	Demonstrate leadership to execute the IAM strategic roadmap and co-create value with the organization.	All	Governance
R07	Maintain contact and exchange information with relevant authorities, special interest groups, and peers.	All	Governance
R08	Design and implement IAM policies that establishes clear requirements and accountability across all IAM domains	All	Governance
R09	Develop an IAM technological roadmap to sustain the organization's digital transformation	All	Governance
R10	Find, recruit, retain, train, and develop IAM talents	All	Governance
R11	Assure up-to-date quality documentation is maintained in IAM records, processes, systems, and their architecture.	All	Governance
R12	Design and implement authorization processes that assure the legitimacy and appropriateness of access permissions	All	Governance
R13	Assure coverage of IAM processes over the information system by dynamically integrating IT Asset Management inventories	All	Identify
R14	Identify and analyze IAM related risks in alignment with the organization's risk management framework	All	Identify
R15	Conduct regulatory and industrial watch to identify regulatory, contractual and industrial requirements and best practices	All	Identify
R16	Facilitate and provide evidences for internal and external audits on IAM related topics and manage related findings and recommendations	All	Identify
R17	Embed IAM requirements by design in the SDLC, Project, and Change Management processes	All	Identify
R18	Effectively implement remediation plans to mitigate IAM related risks and remediate findings	All	Protect
R19	Implement and maintain role-based and other access control models in consistency with the organizational structure and due respect for the least privilege and its specialized form the need-to-know principles	All	Protect
R20	Design, implement, operate, and continuously improve IAM controls to efficiently and effectively assure compliance with regulatory, contractual and security requirements	All	Protect
R21	Design, implement, and continuously improve privileged and technical access management processes and capabilities to effectively mitigate high privileged access risks	PAM/TAM	Protect
R22	Mitigate fraud and accidents by deploying SoD and toxic rights controls	All	Protect
R23	Deploy authentication mechanisms whose robustness is commensurate with risk	All	Protect
R24	Clean the information system from anomalous identities, including orphaned accounts, and access permissions	All	Protect
R25	Implement an efficient off-boarding process that effectively mitigates the risk of unauthorized access by former employees	Workforce IAM	Protect
R26	Add item: Federation with 3rd parties	3rd Party IAM	Protect
R27	Add item: Recertification	Workforce IAM	Protect
R28	Add item: Home office and remote access	Workforce IAM, 3rd Party IAM, PAM/TAM	Protect
R29	Add item: Identity proofing	All	Protect
R30	Add item: Password and secrets management	All	Protect
R31	Reconciliate systems with authorizations to identify and act upon anomalous identities and accesses	All	Detect
R32	Assure adequate traceability in IAM processes to fullfill compliance and security requirements	All	Detect
R33	In coordination with Security Operations, deploy, maintain, and continuously improve monitoring and analytics capabilities to detect anomalous authentication and accesses to deter unauthorized accesses	All	Detect
R34	Use data analytics to identify and respond to anomalous identities, accesses, and behaviors	All	Detect
R35	In coordination with the CSIRT / Incident Response Team, continuously prepare and improve IAM response capabilities (including SOPs) to effectively contribute to the containment and eradication of security incidents when they occur	All	Respond
R36	Suspend anomalous identities and revoke their accesses in response to security incidents in liaison with the CSIRT / Incident Response Team	All	Respond
R37	Based on reconciliation, investigate the root causes of identity and access anomalies and initiate remediation plans accordingly	All	Respond
R38	Contribute to contingency planning by leveraging IAM capabilities for the recovery of large scale incidents or disaster	All	Recover