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Homan Farahmand
VP Analyst
Homan Farahmand is a research analyst and advisor within Gartner for Technical Professionals covering identity and access management (IAM) modernization and next generation internet technologies such as decentralized identity, blockchain and Web3.
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
Meta Group
Vice President, Strategic Solutions
GE Capital IT Solutions
Enterprise Planning and Strategy Consultant
Areas of coverage
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
Advanced Technical Expert certificate from IBM, Independent Consultant Certificate from SAP, a Six Sigma certificate from GE, and an ITIL Foundation certificate
Java Programming certificate, Harvard University
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
1Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) including access request, workflow, roles, entitlements, policy, certification, analytics, cloud, ML/AI
2Authorization including policy management and orchestration, RBAC, ABAC, PBAC, NGAC, OPA, IDQL, XACML, and enterprise policy management
3Blockchain (e.g., Ethereum, Hyperledger, Algorand, Polkdot, Cosmos, Avalanch, Solana), decentralized web, decentralized identity (SSI), consensus protocols, tokenization, NFT, and interoperability
4Privileged access management (PAM), secrets management, and cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM)
5Identity and Access Management (IAM) program and organization including governance, metrics, key risk indicators