D06

Identity & Access Security Architecture

About The Standard Domain

The Identity & Access Security Architecture domain defines how organizations establish, verify, govern, and protect identities while controlling access to resources across users, systems, services, and environments.

It establishes the architectural foundations for authentication, authorization, privileged access, identity lifecycle management, federation, and accountability, ensuring the right identities have the right access, for the right reasons, at the right time, with continuous oversight.

Trusted Identity Design

Authentication & MFA

Authorization & Access Control

Privileged Access Management

Lifecycle, Federation & Governance

Why Adoption is Necessary

Architectural Clarity

Provides a clear blueprint for identity stores, access models, trust boundaries, and user, system, and service access patterns.

Consistent Engineering Expectations

Aligns teams on authentication, authorization, privileged access, federation, lifecycle controls, and access governance.

Measurable Verification

Supports testing and validation of identity controls, access rules, entitlement decisions, privileged access, and enforcement outcomes.

Stronger Evidence

Improves traceability, accountability, and defensible evidence for identity and access design, implementation, operation, and review.

How The Standard Works

Requirements

Define the identity and access outcomes and capabilities that architectures must achieve.

Technical Specifications

Provide the architecture patterns, control expectations, and design specifications for identity, authentication, access, and governance.

Verification and Validation

Define how to test, verify, and validate that identity and access controls operate as intended.

Implementation Guidance

Offer practical guidance, patterns, and best practices to implement the standard effectively across real environments.

Associate Standards Preview

Associate Standards Coming in Q3 2026

Detailed, implementation-level standards that support D01 will be published in Q3 2026 to help teams operationalize secure network architectures.

Built for Builders. Backed by Evidence.

D06 provides the architectural foundation for identity and access security, designed, engineered, and proven to protect users, systems, services, privileges, and trust relationships.