How It Works
Your IAM decision, scored.
Defensible. Results on completion.
IAM Posture™ scores 52+ IAM vendors across 180+ dimensions — matched to your environment, your constraints, and your board's expectations. No pay-to-play rankings. No analyst firm subscriptions. Just a verdict you can act on.
Most IAM decisions are made on vendor demos, peer anecdotes, and analyst reports that scored themselves. IAM Posture™ was built for something different: a structured, requirement-driven evaluation that ends with a defensible recommendation — one you can hand to your board without apology.
How It Works
Three tiers. One decision framework.
Start with the LENS™ Assessment at no cost. Get your full IAM Verdict™ when you're ready to make a decision. Bring in advisory support if your organization needs expert alignment across stakeholders, geographies, or boards.
LENS™ Assessment
Know what you actually need before you talk to a single vendor.
15–25 min
Start Your Free LENS™ AssessmentThe IAM Verdict™
The only IAM report scored against your requirements — not the market's.
Results immediately after assessment
Get Your IAM Verdict™IAM Decision Advisory
For decisions where technical and political complexity demand more than a report.
Scoped per engagement
Talk to an IAM ExpertLENS™ Assessment
The LENS™ Assessment is a structured intake process — approximately 30–40 questions across 5 adaptive steps — designed to surface what your IAM decision actually depends on. Not what vendors want you to think it depends on.
It captures your org profile, technical environment, platform priorities, IAM scope, budget constraints, and current maturity posture. The output is a requirement profile that drives every recommendation downstream.
15–25 minutes
What you get
Your requirement profile scored across 9+ pillars: Identity Foundation, IGA, PAM, CIAM, Threat & Posture, NHI Readiness, Zero Trust, Platform Fit, and Commercial Fit
IAM Maturity summary — your overall posture score across 5 identity areas, in plain English any stakeholder can read
A preliminary shortlist signal — a directional view of which vendor categories fit your environment before a single vendor conversation begins
A structured baseline you can reuse for RFPs, internal alignment, and future re-evaluations
What this is NOT
This is not a quiz. It is not a lead-generation form in disguise. Your answers drive a scored evaluation engine — not a sales sequence.
No account required. No credit card. No vendor callbacks.
The IAM Verdict™
The IAM Verdict™ is your full evaluation: 52+ vendors scored against your specific LENS™ profile across 180+ dimensions. It delivers a ranked shortlist you can defend, a per-vendor fit breakdown you can explain, and an executive summary you can hand directly to your board.
Scoring runs automatically when you complete your LENS™ Assessment. Results are available in your dashboard immediately — no waiting, no queue.
Vendor Neutrality
No vendor has paid to appear in your Verdict. No vendor has paid to rank higher. IAM Posture™ earns revenue from buyers — not from the vendors being evaluated. This is structural, not a policy.
What you get
Ranked shortlist
Your top 5 vendors by fit score, calibrated to your environment
Per-vendor fit scores
Across all 9 scoring pillars, so you understand why each vendor ranked where it did
Pillar-level breakdowns
See where each vendor leads, where it lags, and where you'll need to compensate
Gap analysis
What your top-ranked options don't cover, and how to account for it in your POC or RFP
Disqualifier Engine
Hard-gate rules that eliminate vendors who fail mandatory requirements — FedRAMP, on-premise deployment, SLA floors, and answer-driven criteria
Vendor Deep Dives
Side-by-side vendor comparison with pillar bars, compliance certs, capabilities, financial health, M&A risk, and AI claims reality
5-Year TCO Projection
Licence, implementation, connector maintenance, and internal FTE cost across your top 3 shortlisted vendors
Positioning Map
Scatter chart of all 52+ vendors by capability and deployment fit — personalised to your requirements, not analyst sponsorship
IAM Maturity Intelligence
5-pillar maturity scoring (Governance, Authentication, PAM, Compliance, Machine Identity) with plain-English gap cards, vendor recommendations per gap, and an AI-generated board narrative
Executive summary
Written for your board: clear, non-technical, and built around your business context
Board-ready PDF export
8-page structured report: Verdict, Identity Maturity, Positioning, Scorecard, Deep Dives, Commercial, Methodology
Scenario Presets
Switch instantly between pre-built evaluation profiles: Zero Trust Migration, Cloud-First, Merger & Acquisition, Compliance-Driven, Cost Reduction
Sensitivity Analysis
Shift pillar weights and see which vendors stay top and which flip — shows where your decision is robust and where it is fragile
Stakeholder Lens Views
Reframe the same results for CISO, CFO, CTO, and Procurement — each with different pillar weights and vocabulary
Toxic Combination Detector
Flags dangerous requirement combinations before you commit — e.g. requesting both CIAM and on-premise-only deployment in a single platform purchase
Pillar-by-Pillar Vendor Delta
A small total score gap can hide 20+ point divergence across individual pillars. See exactly where your top vendors pull ahead and fall short — all 9 LENS™ dimensions side by side
Implementation Reality Check
Real-world deployment data: median go-live weeks, SI ecosystem depth, implementation failure rates, and actual P1 support response times — not vendor-quoted estimates
Change-of-Control Protections
IAM consolidation is accelerating. Know which vendors carry strong exit rights, which need active negotiation, and get model contract language to protect your data if ownership changes
Vertical Concentration Risk
See how deeply each shortlisted vendor is deployed in your industry — shallow vertical coverage increases implementation risk and reduces the quality of available peer references
Legacy App Compatibility
For environments with legacy applications: protocol-level support matrix across Kerberos, NTLM, RADIUS, LDAP v2, and header-based auth — native vs. connector vs. not supported
POC Scoring Module
Q3 2026Structured 6-criteria scorecard to evaluate vendors during your proof-of-concept — coming to Decision Workspace in Q3 2026
Negotiation Leverage Report
Q3 2026Vendor fiscal year-end dates, discount ranges, leverage clauses, and sequenced negotiation strategy — coming to Decision Workspace in Q3 2026
Reference Check Capture
Q3 2026Structured reference call log against your shortlisted vendors — coming to Decision Workspace in Q3 2026
Expert Override Layer
Q3 2026Override algorithmic rankings with documented human judgement and a full audit trail — coming to Decision Workspace in Q3 2026
Requires a completed LENS™ Assessment.
IAM Decision Advisory
Some IAM decisions are not just technical. They span multiple regions, involve stakeholders who don't agree, require board-level sign-off on a specific framing, or need a defensible audit trail. The IAM Decision Advisory wraps everything in The IAM Verdict™ and adds direct engagement with IAM Posture™ experts.
Who this is for
Organizations with multi-region deployments, complex legacy environments, active political disagreement between stakeholders, or board-level decisions that require a defensible external opinion — not just an internal recommendation.
Engagement model
Scoped per engagement. Starts with a discovery call.
Typically $2,500–$8,000 depending on scope — scoped before any commitment.
What you get
Everything in The IAM Verdict™
Live working session(s) with IAM Posture™ experts to walk through your results, challenge the methodology, and pressure-test assumptions
Stakeholder alignment support — help translating your decision for audiences with different incentives: security, IT, procurement, legal, the board
POC design support — structured evaluation criteria and a test plan your vendors can actually be scored against
Board presentation support — advisory support for how to frame the recommendation, field objections, and get a decision made
We'll scope the engagement before any commitment.
Clarity
Let's be precise about what IAM Posture™ is — and what it isn't.
IAM is a category with a lot of noise. Analyst firms, ISPM tools, VRM platforms, and advisory consultancies all exist in adjacent space. IAM Posture™ is none of those things.
We Are
A vendor-neutral decision engine
We score IAM vendors. We are not one.
Requirement-driven
Your profile drives the scoring. The market doesn't.
A buyer's tool
We are paid by buyers. Vendors cannot pay to rank higher.
Structured and repeatable
The same methodology runs every evaluation. No subjective house style.
Specific about deliverables
You know what you're getting, when, and in what format.
We Are Not
An IAM product
We don't manage identities. We help you choose who does.
An ISPM / ITDR tool
We are not a security posture monitoring platform.
A VRM or GRC platform
Vendor risk management is a different discipline.
A pay-to-play analyst firm
Vendors cannot sponsor, influence, or purchase placement in your Verdict.
A staffing or implementation firm
We don't do IAM deployments. We help you make the decision upstream of that.
A consultancy that sells hours
The Verdict is a defined deliverable. Advisory is scoped, not open-ended.
"If you've been burned by analyst reports where the winners were also the advertisers — IAM Posture™ was built specifically because that model is broken."
Frequently Asked
Questions CISOs actually ask
Get Started
Start with the LENS™ Assessment.
It's free. It takes 20 minutes. It ends with clarity.
Most IAM decisions take 6–18 months. They involve vendors with significant sales resources and analysts with significant incentives. IAM Posture™ exists to give buyers a structured, vendor-neutral foundation before any of that begins.
Start with the free assessment. Get your requirement profile. Decide if the full Verdict is right for your timeline.
IAM Posture™ is an independent, early-stage startup. We don't manufacture social proof. If you want to understand how the methodology works before committing, ask us — we'll walk you through it.