Mycroft

Mycroft speaks our clients’ language, whether their concern is dollars and cents or bits and bytes.

If you’re a business owner, manager or officer, this part of Mycroft’s website is written from your perspective.  Here, we emphasize business solutions, not bits and bytes, and outline Mycroft’s approach to mapping your business challenges to tactical, actionable projects designed to generate tangible results.

THE MYCROFT DIFFERENCE

Mycroft’s approach to Identity Management is reflected by Six Guiding Principles:

• We leverage our considerable lessons-learned from hundreds of implementations.
• Rather than simply automating existing standards, we always review the current practices to determine what substantive changes are required.
• We never begin a project with the proverbial blank piece of paper – we walk our clients through examples of what has worked and what hasn’t in comparable situations at other organizations.
• Not every implementation need be a “work of art” – we stress the creation of foundation technology first.  The “art” comes into play in future phases, when true customization begins.
• We always relate identity management projects to specific business challenges.  Business leads – technology follows;  never the other way around.
• We always break down initiatives into management pieces, ensuring that “project amnesia” doesn’t set in.  Smaller pieces help our clients better stay abreast of what we’re accomplishing along the way, and remember why it’s important.

WHO HAS ACCESS TO WHAT?

As regulatory pressures increase, so does the need to secure and manage access to IT assets. 

Some regulations require businesses to protect consumer information when dealing with financial information (Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, Payment Card Industry) and with consumer medical information (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act or HIPAA). Also, stringent accountability requirements for business financial governance were introduced with the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act that oblige organizations to implement identity-based controls on financial systems.

The consequences of not adequately addressing security requirements have never been higher, and the stakes will only continue to rise as user populations become more varied and complex. Organizations now have to manage access for geographically dispersed employees, partners, contractors, vendors, consultants and clients – all of whom have frequently shifting circumstances impacting their access needs and rights.  In addition, the volume and growth of resources these workers need access to create complicated challenges for businesses charged with protecting and securing corporate information.

At Mycroft, we work in partnership with our clients to determine their business challenges and requirements, and then provide sustainable, automated identity management solutions. We are experts in directory services, enterprise access management, single sign-on, entitlement management, delegation, role-based access control, provisioning, and federation.  We also provide world-class maintenance and management of these systems.

TWO CRITICAL QUESTIONS

Essentially, all of the issues associated with securing access to IT assets come down to Two Critical Questions organizations of any scope must ask themselves:

How can we control who has access to what information and systems?

How can we protect our data from inappropriate access and use in a manner which adapts to accelerated and unpredictable business changes?

Mycroft’s expansive history in answering these Two Critical Questions – and recognizing that the answers must be tailored for every organization – sets us apart from others who simply provide off-the-shelf solutions.  We work in partnership with our clients to determine their business challenges and requirements, and provide sustainable, automated Identity Management solutions.  We are expert in directory services, enterprise access management, single sign on, entitlement management, delegation, role-based access control, provisioning and federation, as well as the ongoing maintenance and management of these systems environments.

Ultimately, our clients benefit from Mycroft’s successful deployment of hundreds of large-scale Identity Management solutions utilizing best of breed solutions and single-vendor suites.