Gartner Expert
Homan Farahmand
Sr Director Analyst
Homan Farahmand is a Senior Director Analyst within Gartner for Technical Professionals (GTP) covering digital identity and access management (IAM) modernization and emerging technologies adoption including decentralized web and blockchain platforms/protocols.
Previous experience
Prior to his current role at Gartner, 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
Cross-Industry Innovation and Disruption (retired)
Digital Disruption and Innovation (retired)
Blockchain (retired)
Identity and Access Management and Fraud Detection
Identity and Access Management for Technical Professionals
Education
Currently pursuing a Master of Science degree in Cybersecurity at Johns Hopkins University
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
Holds multiple other certificates from HP, Sun and Digital, with a focus on system resiliency
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 management
2Authorization including RBAC, ABAC, and authority-centric methodologies as well as WAM, EAM, API Gateway tools
3Blockchain platforms and protocols (i.e., Ethereum, Hyperledger, Polkadot), decentralized applications, decentralized identity (self-sovereign identity), consensus, crypto tokens, and interoperability
4Robotic Process Automation (RPA) bots identity management, privilege account management (PAM), and identity analytics
5Identity and Access Management (IAM) program and organization including governance, metrics, key risk indicators
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