2023 CIAM Solutions Buyer's Guide

The Convergence of App Governance and Identity Security

Identity Threat Detection and Remediation solutions provide continuous, centralized visibility into all human and non-human identities, detecting anomalous behaviors and identity-based threats in near real time. They integrate with existing IAM, PAM, and IGA systems to automate risk prioritization, response, and remediation actions such as access revocation and policy enforcement, significantly enhancing security posture and reducing identity attack surfaces.

Improving security posture through Identity Threat Detection & Remediation

Strong SDLC security governance enforces least privilege access, multi-factor authentication, and continuous monitoring to reduce risks such as insider threats, code leaks, and compliance violations. Integrating identity-centric controls throughout the software development lifecycle helps protect valuable intellectual property while enabling developer productivity and accountability.

Dynamic Cloud Privileged Access Management

Microsoft Entra ID Governance Lifecycle Workflows automate user identity lifecycle management to improve security, reduce risks, and enhance compliance. This session guides customizing workflows, integrating with external systems, and monitoring to streamline onboarding, moves, and offboarding processes for efficient identity governance.

Bringing an Identity Security focus to SDLC Governance

Organizations tackle legacy identity and security issues through zero-trust adoption, identity lifecycle cleanup, and improved compliance readiness. This cost-effective approach strengthens security with multi-factor authentication, privileged account auditing, permission right-sizing, and secure frontline workforce enablement, all within the framework of the Microsoft Fundamentals Program.

Microsoft Fundamentals Program

MajorKey IGA Services Overview

CyberArk Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions secure, control, and monitor privileged accounts to reduce risk and enhance compliance across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Key capabilities include zero standing privileges, session isolation, threat detection, automated credential management, and secure third-party access, all designed to strengthen security and operational efficiency.

Methodology for a successful PAM program with CyberArk

Identity and Access Management (IAM) programs create business value by streamlining secure user access, reducing risks such as credential theft, and improving operational efficiency across departments. By defining common business outcomes and building leadership support, organizations can protect budgets, foster program champions, and leverage AI to enhance IAM’s impact on HR, marketing, and other teams, driving meaningful organizational transformation.

Who Gives a Sh*t About Identity Security – How to Create Business Value from IAM

Privileged Access Management (PAM) is essential for protecting organizations against data breaches by controlling, monitoring, and securing privileged accounts with just-in-time, least privilege access. This webinar provides an overview of PAM and Privileged Identity Management (PIM), covering use cases, compliance support, and solution capabilities like Saviynt CPAM and Microsoft Entra ID PIM to strengthen cybersecurity posture effectively.

Understanding Privileged Access Management (PAM)

Microsoft Entra Verified ID enables continuous, secure identity proofing for partners, customers, and employees across hybrid work and distributed environments. This webinar explores common use cases such as onboarding and help-desk verification, explaining how Verified ID enhances security by validating identity attributes and roles with verifiable credentials.

Using Microsoft Entra Verified ID for Identity Proofing of Partners, Customers, and Employees

Enhance your organization's security posture with Microsoft Sentinel, a cloud-native SIEM powered by AI and automation, integrated with Microsoft Defender and Entra ID signals. This webinar demonstrates how a modern Security Operations Center (SOC) with 24x7 monitoring can provide improved threat detection, faster response times, and comprehensive digital estate protection.

Transform Your Security Strategy with Microsoft Sentinel and a Modern Managed SOC

Modernize your identity strategy by transitioning from the Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM) Portal to Microsoft Entra ID while maintaining existing on-premises synchronization with the MIM sync engine. This webinar explores how to leverage Entra ID’s advanced self-service, automated workflows, and governance capabilities without disrupting hybrid environments, featuring practical guidance and real-world migration examples.

Transitioning from the MIM Portal to Microsoft Entra ID: MIM Retirement Series Part 2

Explore how artificial intelligence is creating new and sophisticated threats to identity management systems and discover strategies to mitigate these risks. This webinar examines AI-enabled impersonation techniques, deepfake risks, and how cybercriminals leverage AI, along with practical steps organizations can take to protect identities in an evolving threat landscape.

The Rise of AI Threats: Identity Management

Discover how the identity and application governance vendor landscape is evolving amid rapid market convergence. This webinar explores best practices for extending SoD frameworks to ERP and cloud environments, managing role remediation, and integrating application governance with privileged access management to optimize business services.

The Great Convergence: Bridging the Gap Between Identity and App Governance

Secure seamless collaboration across universities and research partners by addressing identity challenges in higher education environments. This webinar explores strategies to protect sensitive data, manage diverse access systems, ensure compliance, and support scalable, secure academic partnerships using modern identity solutions.

Securing Academic Partnerships: Overcoming Identity Challenges in Collaborative Higher Education Environments

Explore the most impactful advances in Identity Access Management (IAM), governance, and security from 2024, and prepare for the top five identity management trends shaping 2025. This webinar delivers expert insights on overcoming challenges, enhancing compliance, and leveraging emerging technologies like AI to future-proof your organization's identity strategy.

Navigating the Future of Identity: 2024 Year End Review & Top Predictions for 2025

Transition from Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM) to Microsoft Entra ID Governance to enhance security, streamline identity processes, and future-proof your identity management strategy. This webinar details key benefits, customer experiences, and practical migration guidance to help organizations modernize IAM with a scalable and cloud-native governance solution.

Moving from MIM to Microsoft Entra ID Governance to Future Proof Identity Management

Azure AD Group Writeback enables syncing of Azure AD groups to on-premises Active Directory, reducing reliance on Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM) and streamlining group management. This webinar covers how to move MIM group functionality to Azure AD, improve compliance through attestation, and simplify group approvals, workflows, and entitlement management for a zero trust security approach.

Moving MIM Group Functionality to Azure AD for On-Premises Group Attestation

Modernize your Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) strategy to effectively mitigate risk in hybrid cloud environments across multiple ERP systems like Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft Dynamics. This on-demand webinar explores market trends, SoD risk management, converged IGA and GRC platforms, and the use of AI to enhance audit efficiency and reduce compliance gaps.

Modernizing GRC: How to Mitigate Risk in Hybrid Cloud Environments

Migrate from ADFS to Microsoft Entra ID to enhance your security posture, reduce IT costs, and streamline user access to thousands of apps. This webinar covers the benefits and best practices for a smooth migration, including improved risk management, compliance, and a unified cloud-based identity control plane that simplifies sign-on experiences.

Migrating from ADFS to Azure Active Directory: Benefits and Best Practices

Maximize the value of your identity program and showcase its business impact to leadership for sustained budget support. This on-demand webinar reveals five key strategies to accelerate time to value, improve compliance performance, and future-proof your identity program against market disruptions and evolving challenges.

Maximizing Value, Showcasing Success, and Future-Proofing Your Identity Program

Migrate user provisioning from Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM) Sync to Microsoft Entra ID for a secure, scalable, and cloud-native identity management solution. This webinar covers migration strategies, automation using SCIM and HR-driven provisioning, auditing capabilities, and best practices for seamless user lifecycle management across hybrid and cloud environments.

Migrating from MIM Sync: User Provisioning with Microsoft Entra ID

Maximize the value of Microsoft 365 investments by leveraging the full capabilities of Microsoft Entra and Azure AD. Gain insights on reducing licensing costs, streamlining IT operations, and strengthening cloud security by optimizing identity lifecycle management and governance workflows.

How to Get the Most Out of Your Microsoft 365 Investments

Uncover the hidden risks posed by machine identities in your IT environment and learn strategies to manage their security effectively. This webinar dives into the challenges of discovering, governing, and protecting machine identities to reduce attack surfaces and prevent unauthorized access in modern enterprises.

Machine Identities: Uncovering the Hidden Risks in your Environment​

Unlock seamless, secure access to apps and resources anywhere with Microsoft's identity-centric Security Service Edge (SSE) solution, integrating Entra Internet Access, Entra Private Access, and Defender for Cloud Apps. This webinar explores how unified Conditional Access policies and Zero Trust principles streamline network security while enhancing user experience for modern cloud and mobile workforces.

Introduction to Microsoft’s Security Service Edge for Identity-Centric Network Access

Successful CIAM programs drive revenue growth by improving customer experiences and protecting against fraud. Measuring CIAM success involves tracking key metrics such as user adoption, conversion rates, security incident reduction, and leveraging analytics to optimize the customer journey and demonstrate business value.

How to Demonstrate Success and Grow the ROI of CIAM Programs

Misconfigured hybrid identity systems, including Microsoft Entra ID and on-premises Active Directory, can increase an organization's vulnerability to cyberattacks by exposing complex and legacy setups. This webinar highlights common blind spots such as synced service accounts and federated identity services, while offering best practices to simplify authentication, enforce least privilege, and secure hybrid identity environments.

How Misconfigured Hybrid Identity Setups Can Compromise Cybersecurity

Extending Identity and Access Management (IAM) to third parties and non-employees enhances security while unlocking business value through streamlined vendor lifecycle, delegated administration, and relationship management. Learn strategies to address governance, audit requirements, and stakeholder engagement for a successful third-party IAM program.

How to Bolster Security and Create Business Value Through Third-Party IAM

Explore strategies to defend against token theft and adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) attacks using Microsoft Defender and Sentinel. It covers attack mechanics, their impact, and demonstrates detection and response techniques to enhance an organization’s cybersecurity posture.

Fortifying Your Cyber Defenses: Using Microsoft Defender to Prevent Token Theft and AiTM Attacks

Migrating from SailPoint IdentityIQ to Identity Security Cloud (ISC) offers significant benefits including reduced total cost of ownership, faster deployment, continuous updates with no downtime, and AI-driven security insights. This migration leverages existing investments while enabling scalable, cloud-native identity security that enhances visibility, risk detection, and operational efficiency.

From SailPoint IdentityIQ to Identity Security Cloud: Creating Value with Cloud

Identity Exchange (IdX) extends Microsoft Entra ID Governance by resolving legacy integration challenges and simplifying complex identity workflows. This webinar highlights how IdX accelerates identity modernization, improves data reconciliation, and helps organizations fully leverage their Microsoft Entra investment.

Creating Transformative Identity Governance Solutions with Microsoft Entra Suite

Microsoft’s Security Service Edge (SSE) delivers unified, cloud-based security by integrating identity-aware network access, Zero Trust Network Access, Secure Web Gateway, and Cloud Access Security Broker capabilities. It replaces legacy VPNs with seamless, secure global access while eliminating security gaps and simplifying access control management for modern distributed workforces.

Exploring Microsoft's Security Service Edge (SSE) Solution

Microsoft Entra Suite offers a unified, advanced solution for managing identity and access, ensuring secure access to critical systems while protecting sensitive data and ensuring compliance. This webinar covers tailored identity workflows for new hires, role changes, and exits, fraud prevention through identity proofing, secure hybrid work scenarios, and integration with platforms like Epic and Workday.

Discover the Microsoft Entra Suite: Unlocking Unified Identity and Access Management

Modern authentication provides powerful tools for securing user identities and managing access, but its complexity can be challenging. This webinar demystifies modern authentication, explaining key components, benefits, security processes, and how Microsoft’s solutions support a smooth authentication journey.

Demystifying Modern Authentication

Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) helps establish and maintain least privilege across multi-cloud environments by providing centralized visibility and control over cloud entitlements. This webinar covers CIEM best practices, security framework standardization, entitlement cleanup with analytics, and how CIEM lays the foundation for posture management and DevSecOps.

Control your Cloud: Mastering Least Privilege with CIEM

Microsoft Entra ID Governance's Lifecycle Workflows automate and streamline user identity lifecycle management to enhance security, improve compliance, and reduce administrative errors. This session covers customization, integration with external systems, and monitoring features to ensure efficient and secure identity governance.

Automate the Identity Lifecycle with Microsoft Entra ID Governance

Holistic identity security starts by treating all access as privileged and protecting sensitive data—no matter the role. A PAM-first approach defends against threats and enforces security for every user, not just IT admins.

All Access is Privileged – Taking a PAM-First Approach Towards your Identity Security Program

Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) enables configuration of custom claims to enhance authentication and authorization workflows by providing additional data in tokens. This webinar covers how to set up and use custom claims in SAML, ID, and access tokens to deliver tailored application experiences and enforce fine-grained access controls.

Configuring and Using Custom Claims in Microsoft Entra ID