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Field notes, by Vidyaa Ganesh

Making sense of identity & access management.

Practitioner-led writing and tools for the teams making critical decisions about identity.

Fig. The IAM territory Maturity profile
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Each numbered point is a domain, placed by its Axis maturity. The further from center, the closer to optimized.

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Tools

Instrument 01 · Axis

A clearer read on your IAM program. In 15 minutes.

A research-backed maturity assessment. It covers nine IAM domains, maps to more than twenty compliance frameworks, quantifies risk using FAIR, and turns the result into an executive-ready report.

37
Questions
9
IAM Domains
20+
Frameworks
15
Minutes
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Also a reference implementation of the Open IGA Operating Framework. The same risk model runs standalone as a free breach cost calculator.

Fig. 1: Sample maturity, nine domains FAIR
Absent → Optimized Overall 2.66 / 5.0
Instrument 02 · Architecture

A practitioner’s map of how IAM actually works.

Nine domains, eight frameworks, and the patterns that separate programs that hold up from ones that look good on paper, with the real failure modes and inter-domain dependencies mapped.

9
Domains
8
Frameworks
14
Dependencies
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Fig. 2: Dependencies
Instrument 03 · Operating Framework

The instruction manual for running identity governance.

An open, citable operating framework: six layers in build order, forty-seven numbered decisions, and the failure modes that show where a program is broken. Tool-agnostic, CC BY 4.0, and open for practitioner review as a v0.1 public draft.

6
Layers
47
Decisions
4
Metrics
10
Companions
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Fig. 3: The operating core M1–C8
why who what which how when MANDATE OWNERSHIP SCOPE PRIORITIZATION PROCESS CADENCE M1–M9 O1–O8 S1–S7 P1–P6 PS1–PS9 C1–C8 EDR TG JHL GL
Build order, top to bottom v0.1 public draft

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