IAM Maturity Assessment Platform
Run a full IAM maturity assessment in 15 minutes
A research-backed platform for measuring IAM maturity across 9 domains. Get benchmarked scores, compliance mapping, financial risk analysis, and a board-ready PDF report, all grounded in published industry data.
Free. No account to create. Your scorecard lands in your inbox when you finish.
Built on 15+ primary research sources across 11 publishers. See a sample report
What you get
Scored, benchmarked, and translated into terms your board can act on.
Financial risk modeling
Identity risk exposure ranges, FTE cost models, insurance premium impact, and potential savings. In dollars, not adjectives.
Board-ready reports
Executive narrative, financial analysis, compliance heatmaps, and technical backlog. Downloadable as a branded PDF.
Dynamic benchmarking
A statistical blend of published research and consented peer data by industry, region, and size. Every benchmark ships with its uncertainty range and evidence label.
Compliance mapping
Automated alignment across SOX, GDPR, HIPAA, NIST CSF, PCI DSS, and more. Filtered to your scope and industry.
Strategic roadmap
Stabilize foundational controls, unlock high-impact gains, differentiate from peers. Prioritized by effort and impact.
37-question assessment
5-level maturity model with impact-weighted scoring, domino-control dependencies, and research-backed thresholds.
The deliverable
Every assessment ends in a board-ready report.
A 12-section PDF: executive narrative, financial risk analysis, compliance heatmaps, and a prioritized three-horizon roadmap. Written for the meeting where budget gets decided.
- Executive summary with maturity score and benchmark position
- Domain-by-domain analysis across all 9 IAM domains
- Compliance mapping across 20+ frameworks
- Financial risk exposure in dollar ranges
- Three-horizon roadmap: stabilize, unlock, differentiate
When the result needs to hold up in front of auditors, any completed assessment can be upgraded to a practitioner-reviewed report. Flat fee, $250.
Process
Three steps to a board-ready deliverable.
Configure
Select scope (Workforce, CIAM, or Full), industry, region, and organization size.
Assess
Answer 37 research-backed questions across 9 IAM domains. Keyboard shortcuts and auto-advance make it fast.
Deliver
Get instant scores, benchmarks, compliance mapping, financial risk analysis, and a branded PDF report.
Benchmark intelligence
Benchmarks that get smarter over time.
AXIS blends published research with consented peer data using the same credibility-weighting statistics the actuarial industry has used for decades. Every benchmark is displayed with a credible interval and an honest label of the evidence behind it: no activation thresholds, no sudden jumps.
- Prior
Published research
The starting estimate, derived from IBM, SailPoint, and other primary sources, with its derivation uncertainty stated.
- Layer 1
Global industry
Consented peer assessments in your industry vertical worldwide sharpen the estimate.
- Layer 2
Regional industry
Peers in your industry and region narrow it further.
- Layer 3
Closest cohort
Same industry, region, and cohort: the most relevant evidence, weighted highest.
At zero peer data the benchmark is the research estimate, labeled as exactly that, with a wide interval. As consented assessments accrue, peer evidence takes over smoothly (half the weight at 16 assessments). Small peer groups are never disclosed: cross-organization cells are withheld below five contributors.
AXIS Methodology
Research-backed. Transparent. Reproducible.
AXIS isn't another maturity checklist. Methodology 1.7 is a 350+ page, version-pinned instrument: provably monotone scoring, formal N/A rules, NIST SP 800-30-aligned risk quantification, and a published validation roadmap as real-world assessment data accrues.
- 15+
- Research sources
- 350+
- Pages of analysis
- 20+
- Compliance frameworks
- 9
- IAM domains
- 37
- Assessment questions
- 4-tier
- Benchmark system
Research foundation
IBM / Ponemon Cost of a Data Breach · Coalition Cyber Claims Report · Delinea Cyber Insurance Survey · SailPoint Identity Security Horizons · Simeio State of IAM · NIST Cybersecurity Framework · NIST SP 800-63 · Gartner IAM Research
Why AXIS
Built by a practitioner who runs these assessments in the field.
That practitioner is Vidyaa Ganesh, founder of Identara. The questions, weights, and thresholds come from that work, and the full reasoning behind them is public in the methodology.
Practitioner-built
Designed from real-world IAM consulting experience, not theory. Every question, weight, and threshold reflects what actually matters in the field.
Quantified risk, not guesswork
Research-anchored financial modeling translates maturity gaps into dollar ranges so teams can prioritize remediation with clearer ROI.
Structured and repeatable
Standardized scoring, deterministic outputs, and consistent methodology. Run the same assessment twice and get the same results, across teams, time, and assessors.
Two ways in
Assessing your own program, or your clients'?
Your own program
Run the assessment yourself. 15 minutes, free, no account. You get the scores, the benchmark position, the compliance mapping, and the full report. Upgrade to a practitioner review later if you need it validated.
Your clients' programs
Consultancies run AXIS under their own brand: shareable client links, consultant review with score overrides, portfolio analytics, and white-label reports. 3 months free, then a flat fee.
Know where you stand.
Most organizations know they have IAM gaps, but not where, or how they compare. AXIS gives you a quantified, benchmarked answer in one session.
Free. No account to create. 15 minutes.