Zephon helps federal agencies and large enterprises fix unreliable identity systems, modernize aging platforms, and turn stalled ICAM and Zero Trust initiatives into measurable operational progress.
For organizations dealing with failed provisioning, legacy IAM, compliance pressure, access backlogs, or Zero Trust plans that never become operational.
The practitioners who diagnose your problem are the ones who fix it. Our leadership has over 25 years of experience on complex, large-scale IAM programs, and we staff engagements only with people who have hands-on identity delivery behind them.
We also work alongside federal prime contractors as a specialized delivery partner, bringing experienced ICAM and Zero Trust practitioners into complex programs that need deeper technical expertise and hands-on execution.
We look for the simplest approach that solves the problem. Sometimes that is a capability already in the platform you own, not another services engagement.
Clients include the IRS, DLA, the SEC, Sandia National Laboratories, Comcast, HCSC, and Hofstra University.
Teaming with us? Download our Capability Statement for Prime Contractors (PDF).
Most organizations we work with already own capable identity platforms. The question is whether those platforms are reliable, maintainable, and moving the program forward. These are the patterns we are usually called in to fix.
Impact: lost productivity, ticket volume, access backlogs, security exposure, and mission delays.
Impact: higher operating costs, more errors, overburdened teams, and less capacity for strategic work.
Impact: growing technical debt, audit exposure, rising maintenance costs, and reduced resilience.
Impact: delayed security improvements, wasted investment, leadership frustration, and no demonstrable progress.
Not every engagement starts with a failure. Organizations with working identity environments also bring us in to scale, reduce technical debt, and mature their operations.
This is how an experienced engineering team works, not a methodology to buy. Restore reliability early, then modernize in an order your operations can absorb.
Understand the operational failures, technical dependencies, root causes, and business impact. Establish which problems should be addressed first.
Identify the highest-value corrective actions. Set a realistic sequence that accounts for technical dependencies, risk, resources, and operational constraints.
Fix broken workflows, stabilize integrations, reduce technical debt, and modernize identity infrastructure without unnecessarily disrupting operations.
Measure reliability, operational performance, and security outcomes. Keep improving as your needs evolve.
When the question is enterprise-wide Zero Trust maturity, AISE gives the Diagnose and Prioritize steps a structured baseline and roadmap. It is not a prerequisite for fixing an identity problem.
Documented outcomes from client engagements, tied to the work that produced them.
Zephon tuned and stabilized DLA's Account Management and Provisioning System (AMPS), resolving provisioning and reconciliation bottlenecks and adding high availability. Zephon continues to provide 24x7 monitoring and Tier 2/3 support, and supports the platform's ongoing modernization.
With little internal expertise left and automation failures driving manual work, Zephon recovered and fixed undocumented code, automated Office 365 and Gmail provisioning, and upgraded OIM to a supported version.
As a subcontractor to CDW Government, Zephon led major design, implementation, and migration work to move the IRS to SailPoint IdentityIQ in AWS GovCloud, with CyberArk integration and approval workflows up to 10 levels deep, and no user impact.
“Zephon is our gold standards for vendors.”
A CISA ZTMM-aligned Identity and Device Zero Trust assessment covering 300+ applications and 7 High-Value Assets, with a phased multi-year roadmap, delivered ahead of a 7-month deadline. Read the SEC case study
Identity environments accumulate tools, scripts, and workarounds until they're harder to run than they should be. We leave them simpler than we found them: we remove what isn't needed, put logic where it belongs, and modernize what remains.
Each service starts from the operational problem it solves.
Dependable authentication, federation, and access lifecycle across users and applications, including PIV and HSPD-12, SAML, and OIDC.
Provisioning, access requests, certifications, and role models that run without constant manual intervention and stand up to audit.
Privileged access governed alongside standard access, so administrators, approvers, and auditors work from one consistent model.
Stabilize aging Oracle and custom identity stacks first, then modernize toward supportable architectures without losing users, workflows, or audit history.
Zero Trust architecture that starts with identity, sequenced so foundational capabilities are in place before advanced ones.
Platforms we know deeply: Oracle Identity Manager and Oracle Identity Governance, SailPoint IdentityIQ, midPoint, Radiant Logic, Keycloak, CyberArk, and Okta.
AISE · Zero Trust Maturity & Governance Platform
AISE (pronounced EE-Zee) helps organizations assess Zero Trust maturity, identify capability gaps, prioritize improvements, and track progress against a structured execution roadmap.
Built for programs that need a defensible maturity baseline. Your environment doesn't have to be failing to need one, and you don't need AISE to fix an operational identity problem.
Supporting disciplines from the same senior team, often delivered alongside identity work.
Cloud security is part of this work, as in our Azure cloud security compliance at HCSC and cloud migration at D&B.
Federal contracting details · Capability Statement — Federal Agencies (PDF)
Whether you're dealing with recurring access failures, an aging IAM platform, or a modernization initiative that isn't progressing, let's start by understanding the problem and what a practical solution could look like.