A Fortune 500 Financial Services Organization
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An IAM environment that no longer scaled with the business.
The organization’s IAM environment was not designed to scale with business growth, resulting in challenges around access control consistency, security enforcement, and centralized oversight. The hybrid IAM architecture leveraging ADFS and Microsoft Entra ID introduced operational complexity across multiple regions and tenants, making identity governance, authentication policies, and provisioning workflows increasingly fragmented and difficult to maintain.
Manual and inconsistent provisioning processes increased operational overhead, delayed access delivery, and introduced elevated risk of identity-related errors. The absence of standardized Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and automated lifecycle management contributed to orphaned accounts, over-provisioned access, and insufficient enforcement of least-privilege principles across the enterprise.
Evolving regulatory and compliance requirements within the financial services sector exposed gaps in access governance, risk-based authentication, and audit readiness. The absence of a robust multi-tenant IAM framework further complicated administrative control, policy enforcement, and segregation of environments — increasing operational burden and overall risk exposure across the organization’s identity estate.
A modern, scalable IAM foundation — built for hybrid, multi-tenant scale.
Compunnel partnered with the organization to design and implement a modern, scalable IAM architecture that supported multi-tenancy and a hybrid authentication model spanning ADFS and Microsoft Entra ID. The engagement strengthened Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) controls within Entra ID, enhanced policy enforcement and access oversight, and deployed Microsoft Entra Identity Protection to enable continuous monitoring, risk-based authentication, and proactive threat detection.
What the program delivered.
Defined IAM strategy, governance model, policies, and standards to drive consistent identity and access controls across a hybrid, multi-tenant environment.
Designed and implemented a scalable multi-tenant IAM architecture supporting hybrid authentication across ADFS and Microsoft Entra ID.
Enhanced Identity Governance and Administration controls within Entra ID to improve entitlement oversight, access governance, and policy enforcement.
Automated joiner, mover, and leaver workflows to enforce timely provisioning, modification, and de-provisioning across the identity estate.
Deployed Microsoft Entra Identity Protection to enable adaptive authentication, continuous risk evaluation, and proactive threat detection.
Established centralized access visibility across tenants, improving entitlement oversight, audit readiness, and overall compliance posture.
Implemented automated SoD controls to detect and prevent conflicting access, strengthening internal controls and reducing recurring audit findings.
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