Identity Security for growing companies
Identity risk intelligence for post-acquisition companies. We surface, score, and prioritize identity exposure before auditors do. From day one, you have a defensible intelligence layer that translates risk into business decisions.
About 10 business days from access grant to board-ready report. Complex environments scoped separately. Critical findings are flagged in real-time, never held until report delivery.
The 90-day window nobody manages
When an acquisition closes, Identity Security falls into a gap. Most IT teams don't have the time or tooling to assess it properly, until an auditor does it for them.
Orphaned accounts stay active
Terminated employees from the acquired entity remain active in Okta and downstream apps, invisible to the new IT team until an auditor finds them.
Admin privilege sprawl
Two Okta tenants, two AD environments, two sets of admin accounts. Combined environments routinely carry 3–4x the admin access that is operationally necessary.
No documented JML process
Joiner-Mover-Leaver workflows that lived in tribal knowledge at the acquired company do not transfer with the headcount. Offboarding becomes manual and error-prone.
Cyber insurance questionnaires do not match reality
What was true at renewal is not true after the acquisition. Underwriters are asking specific questions about access governance the combined entity cannot answer cleanly.
Access certifications never run post-close
The combined entity has never reviewed the full merged user population. Every unreviewed account is a finding waiting to surface in the next audit cycle.
AI agents and machine identities with ungoverned access
Copilot, Claude, internal bots, and automation service accounts are being wired into production systems with static credentials and no lifecycle owner. They outnumber human users. And nobody is certifying what they can reach.
"Companies that go through an acquisition typically inherit 3–4 Identity Security gaps that do not surface until an audit or a cyber insurance review."
These gaps are predictable, recurring, and expensive to ignore. SOX compliance, cyber insurance renewal, and board-level security reviews all surface them: usually at the worst possible time. An Identity Security assessment finds them first, before they become findings, fines, or headlines.
Three stages. Clear outcomes.
Every engagement follows a defined process with a defined deliverable. No ambiguity about what you are getting or what happens next.
A complete review of your Okta tenant, Active Directory, IGA configuration, and JML processes, documented in a written findings report your board, auditor, or insurer can read.
- Okta tenant and MFA policy audit
- Admin privilege and access review
- Orphaned account identification
- JML process gap analysis
- Written findings report and roadmap
Deploy IES/ARM/MIRI frameworks. Conduct discovery interviews. Score your identity posture across 8 risk dimensions.
- Critical finding remediation
- Okta policy and group cleanup
- Offboarding process documentation
- Audit-ready evidence package
20 hours per month of structured Identity Security advisory. Defined scope, predictable cost, monthly written summary, and a quarterly business review so you always know what has been done and what is next.
- Access certification management
- IAM policy and role governance
- AI agent and machine identity review
- Monthly posture summary
- Quarterly business review call
Identity Risk Assessment: Frameworks + Judgment
Identity Exposure Score (IES) + Acquisition Risk Multiplier (ARM) + Machine Identity Risk Index (MIRI). Framework-driven, audit-aligned, delivered in two weeks.
From the practice
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Risk Ready Identity is a specialized Identity Security practice with direct experience managing identity posture inside high-growth, acquisition-driven environments at scale, covering human users, service accounts, and the growing footprint of AI agents and machine identities now embedded in production workflows.
The practice was built around a simple observation: every post-acquisition environment has the same Identity Security gaps, and most internal IT teams do not have the time or tooling to find them before auditors do. The rapid rollout of AI assistants and automation has only widened that gap.
The assessment product exists to close that gap. A defined engagement that surfaces what is exposed, prioritizes what matters, and gives your team a clear path forward with no ambiguity about scope or cost.
Risk Ready Identity applies the Gartner IAM Program Maturity Model and the IGA + Access Management taxonomy to assess and remediate post-acquisition identity posture. Every engagement places your program on the five-level maturity scale across the six domains Gartner measures, so findings land inside the same framework your CISO, auditors, and underwriters already reference.
Ready to see what is actually exposed?
A 20-minute discovery call is enough to determine whether the assessment is the right fit. No sales deck. No pressure. Just a direct conversation about your environment and what you are trying to solve.