Benefits of Annual Identity Security Risk Assessments

Annual identity security risk assessments help organizations uncover access gaps, validate governance practices, and maintain a clearer understanding of who should access what. A structured review creates actionable, traceable requirements across IAM, IGA, and PAM environments while surfacing contradictions before they become implementation obstacles, audit concerns, or costly rework. Identity CoAnalyst supports a more consistent, comprehensive assessment process.

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Our Annual Assessment Services

Explore platform capabilities that support repeatable identity assessments, stakeholder input, risk analysis, and implementation-ready documentation.

Assessment Questionnaires

Use practitioner-written questions across IAM, IGA, and PAM domains to create structured annual assessments without starting from a blank page.

AI-Guided Interviews

Let stakeholders complete conversational questionnaires asynchronously while the AI explains terminology, adapts questions, and captures contextual responses.

Cross-Stakeholder Analysis

Identify contradictions, consensus patterns, response gaps, and unusual activity across stakeholder answers before unresolved issues affect identity initiatives.

Requirements Documentation

Generate traceable requirements documents from collected answers using templates, conditional sections, loops, version history, and branded exports.

Questionnaire Design

Build or refine annual assessment flows with AI-generated questions, branching logic, dependencies, reusable content, and visual editing controls.

Integration Support

Connect assessment outputs with existing delivery workflows through REST API capabilities and the included ServiceNow integration.

Repeatable Risk Visibility

Turn Annual Reviews Into Actionable Insight

An annual identity security risk assessment gives teams a regular opportunity to revisit access decisions, governance processes, lifecycle events, privileged access, and role structures. With Identity CoAnalyst, stakeholders can respond in plain language and at their own pace, while analytics reveal contradictions and gaps across responses. The result is a more consistent, traceable baseline for prioritizing improvements across IAM, IGA, and PAM programs.

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The Identity CoAnalyst Difference

Why Choose Identity CoAnalyst?

Purpose-built capabilities help make recurring identity assessments more complete, consistent, and useful.

Identity Expertise

Built around IAM, IGA, and PAM requirements rather than generic survey collection.

Complete Coverage

Access practitioner-written questions across eleven curated identity security domains.

Clear Traceability

Connect stakeholder responses to structured requirements and generated documentation.

Early Conflict Detection

Surface disagreements and gaps before they create downstream implementation or governance problems.

Meet The Identity Team

Experienced identity professionals shape the platform and its practical approach.

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Edward Thompson

Senior IGA Consultant, Commercium Technology Inc (CTI)

Edward Thompson is a Senior IGA Consultant at Commercium Technology Inc (CTI) with 6+ years of highly focused experience on SailPoint's Identity Security Cloud (ISC) solution, holding formal SailPoint certification at the highest level (Engineer). His proficiency spans ISC solution architecture and best-practice methodologies for Identity Governance & Administration, and he excels at architecting, implementing and integrating solutions in expansive retail, healthcare and financial environments with robust RBAC and lifecycle management — working well within a team or as the primary consultant. Selected twice by SailPoint as a presenter at Developer Days 2024 and 2025 as an Expert Ambassador in the SailPoint technical community, Edward has been chosen by SailPoint for engagements including a hospital's IdentityIQ-to-ISC migration, Epic EMP/SER integration governing clinical and non-clinical access at Bryan Health, application onboarding and workflow-driven certification delegation at Boeing, and a custom Paycom HR connector for State Department Federal Credit Union. Earlier, as a principal SailPoint consultant, he led Sunbelt Rentals' migration from Microsoft Identity Manager to IdentityNow with a 1,400-role RBAC model for 30,000+ users and built a custom SaaS connector bridging MuleSoft and AS400 RentalMan. His integration experience covers Active Directory, Entra ID, Workday, PeopleSoft, Salesforce, Paycom, ServiceNow and Epic, and he holds a BS in Computer Science from Western Washington University.

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Jason Burt

Solution Architect, Commercium Technology Inc (CTI)

Jason Burt is a Solution Architect at Commercium Technology Inc (CTI) with more than 20 years of IT experience across the design, implementation, customization, integration, operation and administration of enterprise security solutions, and exceptionally deep SailPoint and IGA development skills. As a solution architect with SailPoint Professional Services, he has delivered implementations for major North American customers across insurance, finance, banking, government, higher education, healthcare, resource extraction and manufacturing, while also owning expert-services engagements that call for performance tuning and expert-level debugging of undocumented product behavior. Jay was lead architect on the replacement of a legacy Garancy access management platform with SailPoint at Highmark Blue Cross, delivered two years of bi-monthly milestone releases on the CNA Insurance projects team spanning password management, application onboarding, UI customization, certifications, workflows and provisioning, and architected a multi-campus identity lifecycle solution for 200,000+ users at the University of Nebraska. His hands-on work centers on Java-based custom and web-services connectors, IdentityIQ plugins, rules and workflows. Jay holds SailPoint Solution Architect, IdentityNow Engineer and Identity Security Cloud Expert certifications, and earned a BS in Interdisciplinary Science and a BA in Business Administration from Portland State University.

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Mehul Chavda

Senior SailPoint / IAM Architect, Commercium Technology Inc (CTI)

Mehul Chavda is a Senior Identity and Access Management architect at Commercium Technology Inc (CTI) with more than 18 years of IT experience, including 8+ years of deep, senior-level specialization in SailPoint-based identity management. He has a proven record of designing and implementing enterprise-scale IAM solutions with SailPoint IdentityIQ (IIQ), Identity Security Cloud (ISC), Okta and Oracle Identity Manager across the government, healthcare, banking and manufacturing sectors. Mehul's expertise spans user lifecycle management (joiner/mover/leaver), RBAC and birthright role frameworks, access certification, workflow automation and cross-platform integration — translating complex business requirements into secure, scalable identity solutions. As a Sr. SailPoint Architect with SailPoint Professional Services he architected a comprehensive ISC–ServiceNow integration across three workstreams (governance connector, service desk fulfillment for disconnected applications, and Service Catalog as a unified access request front end), upgraded IdentityIQ from 8.0 to 8.3 with the Accelerator Pack, integrated CyberArk via SCIM for privileged account management, and built Azure DevOps and Git pipelines for environment code migration. His earlier architect roles at CLS International Bank, SUPERVALU, John Wiley & Sons and New York City Health + Hospitals included Okta and AWS MFA rollouts, SAML SSO for 30+ applications, Epic EHR (EMP/SER) integration via custom web services, and a high-availability Oracle Identity Manager 11g R2 deployment. Mehul is a Certified SailPoint ISC Engineer and ISC Professional, and a Certified SailPoint IdentityIQ Solution Architect and Associate.

Portrait of Steven Hall, SailPoint Identity Security Cloud Tech Lead at Commercium Technology Inc (CTI)

Steven Hall

SailPoint Identity Security Cloud Tech Lead, Commercium Technology Inc (CTI)

Steven Hall is a SailPoint Identity Security Cloud (ISC) project tech lead at Commercium Technology Inc (CTI) with over 20 years of identity-security-focused experience and formal SailPoint ISC certification. Steve's strength is the full arc of a program: requirements discovery and definition, architecture, hands-on implementation, and integration within large and complex financial, pharmaceutical and healthcare environments. He has a particular interest in helping hospitals gain efficiency and cost savings by integrating SailPoint ISC with medical information systems such as Epic — work reflected in his role leading the SailPoint IdentityNow deployment at Temple University Hospital, where he implemented the Epic SER, Active Directory, ServiceNow and Azure connectors and replaced manual processes with role-driven automation. He currently leads the Montgomery County Government ISC program, integrating Oracle HRMS, Oracle EBS, Active Directory and SQL Server to support joiner/mover/leaver provisioning, access certification and access requests, and mentors less senior developers on ISC transforms, workflows and connector rules. Steve previously led the State Department Federal Credit Union's ISC migration from ADP to Paycom-HR with near-zero business disruption. Across his career he has worked with large-scale LDAP directory services, meta and virtual directories, data synchronization, password management, account provisioning and group management, and brings very strong Microsoft skills spanning Windows, Active Directory, Azure and PowerShell.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is an identity security risk assessment?

An identity security risk assessment reviews how an organization manages digital identities and access. It can examine areas such as lifecycle events, access requests, role management, access certifications, privileged access, identity data, and governance practices. The goal is to identify gaps, clarify responsibilities, and create a documented understanding of requirements that can guide remediation, design, implementation, and ongoing oversight.

Why should identity security risk assessments be conducted annually?

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Platform Highlights

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Practitioner Question Library

More than 500 questions organized across eleven identity domains.

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Live Client Engagements

Platform capabilities support active identity discovery engagements.

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