Enabling Alignment of Enterprise Architecture (EA) with the Federal Identity, Credential, and Access Management (FICAM)

Sevatec's Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) services span virtually all levels of identity and security planning and requirements for government civilian areas. Our ICAM services help our customers attain these important mission goals:

• Complying with Federal Laws, Regulations, Standards and Governance;
• Facilitating E-Government implementation through secure access services;
• Improving Security Posture across the federal enterprise;
• Enabling Trust and promote interoperability with partners; and
• Reducing costs and increase operational efficiency.

Our Lifecycle Identity Management Framework (LIMF) consists of four key areas that include the people, processes, and technology dimensions in a continuous improvement cycle:

• Security Assessment – Ensuring alignment across all identity and access management activities that cross individual agency boundaries;
• Security Governance – Fostering effective government-wide identity and access management; and enabling trust in online transactions through common identity and access management policies and approaches;
• Security Engineering – Collaborating with external identity management activities through inter-federation interoperability; and
• Training & Awareness – Assist federal agency executives and technical leads understand common identity and access management practices;

Sevatec's Identity Management Services

Our LIMF approach to identity management is based on our client's mission and current operating environment. Sevatec helps support the successful implementation and enablement of FICAM by focusing on:

• Assessment and Analysis – Analyzing the current environment to uncover opportunities for reducing operating costs related to user and identity management;
• Logical and Physical Access Control – Utilizing common credentials and services including PIV enablement and providing a scorecard dashboard to monitor metrics;
• Legacy Applications – Integrating legacy applications by providing authentication services and enterprise single-sign-on (SSO) functionality; and
• HSPD-12 and PIV – Providing guidance to assist in achieving full utilization of PIV (Personnel Identity Verification) Smart Cards deployment and interoperability with Federal government systems.

Our LIMF helps drive the implementation by assisting Federal agencies in creating capabilities and services that integrate:

• Credentials Management – Sponsorship, enrollment, and issuance, including HSPD-12, Biometrics, PKI, PIV cards
• Identity Management – Identifying Authoritative sources of data, investigations and on-boarding and managing the lifecycle of the identity and role-based security
• Access Management – Including Physical Access, Logical Access, and management by Privilege, Policy, and Resource; and
• Federation – With External Agencies, State and Local Government, Citizens, and Partners

Critical to Sevatec's approach is achieving consensus with key stakeholders on what the FICAM strategy, standards, and operational models must be to reinforce security policies and standards compliance.

Sevatec works closely with organizations to define identity management strategies based on our clients' specific missions and operating environments. Working with key stakeholders, our consultants assess your security planning and requirements and chart a course for security efficiencies that deliver measurable results.

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