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.