Identity and Access Management for citizen-facing government services
When the "user" is the public, identity gets harder, not easier: national scale, zero tolerance for compromise, and a level of public trust that has to be earned by the architecture itself, not just claimed in a policy document.
Why this sector is different
Government identity problems split into two very different halves: internal workforce access (the same governance discipline every regulated sector needs) and external, citizen-facing identity, which is a different problem entirely. Authenticating millions of citizens claiming a service, verifying who they are without ever meeting them, and doing it at a security bar that can't afford to fail, is closer to national infrastructure than to a typical enterprise IAM programme.
That work is usually federation-heavy: proving identity once, then trusting that proof consistently across services, built on the same standards (Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), OAuth and OpenID Connect (OIDC)) used everywhere else, but deployed at a scale and public-trust threshold most private-sector programmes never have to meet.
The parts of IAM that matter most in government
Strategy & Identity Acceleration
Subject Matter Expert-level architecture design for identity solutions that have to work at national scale, first time.
See Strategy & Identity Acceleration →Cloud Governance & Federation
SAML 2.0 and OAuth/OIDC-based identity federation, built to authenticate citizens securely without compromising the systems behind it.
See Cloud Governance →Legacy Modernisation & Cloud Migration
Moving established government identity infrastructure onto cloud-based authentication and federation without disrupting a live public service.
See Legacy Modernisation & Cloud Migration →Compliance & Audit Readiness
Security policy and identity assurance built to the standard the public sector, and public scrutiny, actually demands.
See Compliance & Audit Readiness →Delivery experience, not promises
Years of domain experience
Advisory & consulting projects
Multi-country programmes
Go-live implementations