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Homan Farahmand
VP Analyst
Homan Farahmand is an analyst specializing in identity and access management (IAM) modernization and related emerging technologies. His coverage includes research on IAM mission-critical and perennial priorities, executive-level advisory, and product and architecture strategy for global enterprises, vendors, and the public sector. He helps IAM leaders and product teams modernize IAM as a system of systems—including access management, IGA, PAM, runtime authorization, and observability, aligned with identity fabric and zero-trust principles. His specialties include IAM strategy, reference architectures, operating models, and phased roadmaps. He is currently focused on governable AI-agent ecosystems.
Previous experience
Mr. Farahmand led the Gartner Identity and Access Management consulting practice globally as well as the Security and Risk Management consulting practice in the financial services industry. He has worked in multiple commercial industries and public-sector organizations across North America, Europe and Japan. His IAM engagements during the last decade have spanned strategy and roadmap development, current architecture assessment, future architecture development, governance and organization development, risk and control management, technology and vendor evaluation, implementation oversight, and benchmarking and sourcing.
Before joining Gartner, Mr. Farahmand held consulting and leadership positions at Burton Group, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Meta Group and GE Capital IT solutions. Prior to that, he was involved in hands-on application development and system engineering.
Professional background
Burton Group, Principal Consultant, 4 years
Meta Group, Vice President, Strategic Solutions, 5 years
GE Capital IT Solutions, Enterprise Planning and Strategy Consultant, 4 years
Areas of coverage
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Identity and Access Management for Technical Professionals
Education
Pursuing a Master of Science degree in Cybersecurity at Johns Hopkins University (paused)
Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran
Certificate of Engineering Law and Liability, and Certificate of Financial Management, University of Toronto
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) including access request, workflow, roles, entitlements, policy, certification, analytics, cloud, ML/AI
Privileged access management (PAM), secrets management, CIEM, ISPM, and ITDR
Authorization including policy management and orchestration, RBAC, ABAC, PBAC, ReBAC, OBAC, NGAC, OPA, IDQL, AuthZEN, Zanzibar, Cedar, and XACML
Identity and Access Management (IAM) emerging technologies including, decentralized identity, verifiable credentials, generative artificial intelligence, and AI agents
Identity and Access Management (IAM) products and architecture strategy for global enterprises