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- The session focused on machinery of government (MOG) changes and the role of identity governance and administration (IGA) systems in managing these changes within government organizations.
- MOG changes involve significant reorganization, affecting staff roles, access rights, and departmental structures, often resulting in high volumes of changes that need to be managed efficiently.
- Current MOG management practices often rely on spreadsheets and manual processes, which are inefficient, error-prone, and lack auditability.
- A case study from a New South Wales government department found approximately 800 active accounts for terminated employees, highlighting risks from delayed access revocation.
- IGA systems connect to HR and target applications, correlate identity data, govern access through policies and roles, automate provisioning, and provide audit trails.
- IGA systems support managing humans, non-human identities (machine accounts), third parties, and agents, with succession planning for ownership of privileged accounts being critical.
- The identity model aggregates authoritative HR data and access entitlements to assess risk and manage access dynamically during MOG changes.
- IGA platforms provide lifecycle management for joiner, mover, and leaver events, role-based access control (RBAC), request and approval workflows, policy enforcement including separation of duties, and user access reviews.
- MOG changes impact not only people but also machines, agents, and data access, requiring governance and succession planning to maintain accountability and security.
- Activity monitoring and the Shared Signals Framework enable integration between identity systems and security operations centers to manage risk dynamically.
- The session emphasized the opportunity MOG changes present to improve security posture, reduce risk, reclaim licenses, and enhance operational efficiency through automation.
- Building a business case for IGA implementation can leverage metrics such as reduced time to access (currently up to six to eight weeks), fewer service desk tickets, lower manual provisioning effort, improved audit and compliance efficiency, license reclamation, and reduced breach exposure costs.
- The cost of data breaches is increasing, with recent high-profile Australian breaches costing upwards of $100 million, underscoring the importance of robust identity governance in government systems to maintain trust and operational efficiency.
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Hello, and welcome to my session. My name is Will Harrington. I am an identity strategist for SailPoint, and today is going to be the first of a four-part series of webinars directed at government organizations. Through this webinar series, we will be talking about how we can apply identity practice to some typical government settings. One of those settings is the machinery of government changes and how identity governance, or I am going to say IGA systems, can be impactful and very useful as a part of machinery of government. In future webinar recordings, there will be discussion around how identity governance can be integrated with cybersecurity, as well as another session on AI in identity governance and what the impact of that is, as well as the final recording in the series will be about building a business case.
As a part of securing machinery of government changes, I am going to start saying MOG. Machinery of government is quite a tongue twister, and it is getting a little bit tiring. So I am going to go to MOG and IGA. When I say MOG, you know I am talking about machinery of government changes. As a part of today's presentation, we will be covering what is a machinery of government change. This is a government webinar, so I hope all of the people who are attending today know exactly what a machinery of government change is. Those of you who are coming in from the private sector, that a machinery of government change is just like a reorg.
If you are dealing with a lot of reorgs in your organization, then maybe the same logic can apply to you, and certainly this information presented today is interchangeable between government and private. Today we will be talking about reorgs in the context of machinery of government in a government setting, and the public sector is going to be getting a lot of attention as a part of this. Second on the list is the challenges of managing a MOG. What are they? What is a MOG? The challenges of managing a MOG. There is a lot of data that changes hands as a part of a MOG, and we will get into the details of that, what the current practice is.
I have had the privilege of presenting at several Public Sector Network events in Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney at the moment, and I will be presenting in Brisbane. I have had the opportunity to talk to a lot of public service employees, and I have queried them about how they go about machinery of government changes, and they have been able to share some details. So this is just a bit of a collation of that sharing and just what I thought was the most common. Then we are going to get into the good part, which is talking about how identity governance or IGA systems can be used as a part of facilitating MOG changes. What can we automate? Let us finish up with how to build a business case. How do we build a business case through the lens of a MOG? A MOG is a big part of government.
It happens all the time. Then there must be some way we can use that information and use that volume of change and the inefficiency of the process to be able to say, "Okay, well, if I don't have an identity governance system, how can I frame the data to then serve the purpose of building a business case for maybe the implementation of an identity governance system?" I think a MOG provides a really good place to begin that conversation. One announcement redraws the whole org chart. Just like I said earlier, a MOG is a reorg. This is where election results or we have a new ministry where there are policy shifts and portfolio changes.
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