⬡ Managed Security Services · Texas

Identity.
Access.
Secured.

Cipherion delivers end-to-end managed identity and access security — IAM, IGA, PAM, and DNS — as a single, fully managed service for organizations in Dallas, Houston, and Austin.

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IAM — Identity & Access Management
Okta · Entra · Ping Identity
Managed
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IGA — Identity Governance
SailPoint · Access Certifications
Managed
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PAM — Privileged Access
CyberArk · BeyondTrust · Vault
Managed
DNS — Performance & Security
Dedicated Infrastructure · Sub-8ms
Managed
The Challenge
Identity Security Is Broken
For Most Organizations
Not because the tools don't exist. Because nobody is running them together.
01

Too Many Vendors

The average mid-market organization runs 3-5 separate identity tools with no unified strategy. Each vendor has different support contacts, renewal cycles, and integration requirements. The result is an identity program that nobody fully owns.

02

Access Creep & Compliance Risk

Without active governance, user access accumulates over time. Employees leave, roles change, projects end — but access permissions persist. This isn't just a security risk. It's a compliance liability that auditors find every single time.

03

The DNS Blind Spot

Most security programs stop at the application layer and forget about DNS entirely. Every network request your organization makes starts with a DNS lookup — and most organizations are routing that through shared, unmonitored infrastructure they don't control.

What We Deliver
The Full Stack
Four interconnected layers. One managed service. We run it — you focus on your business.
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Identity & Access Management

The foundation of your security program

Okta Entra ID Ping Identity

IAM is the first question in any security program: who is this person, and what should they be able to do? When IAM is implemented correctly, the answer is clear, consistent, and enforced automatically across every system in your organization.

When it isn't, your helpdesk handles password resets manually, employees wait days for application access, and your security team has no visibility into who actually has access to what.

Cipherion designs, deploys, and manages your IAM program end to end — from initial architecture through ongoing operations — so your team never has to carry that weight alone.

What's Included

  • Single Sign-On (SSO) across all applications
  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) design and enforcement
  • Automated joiner, mover, and leaver workflows
  • Application onboarding and integration management
  • Directory services and identity synchronization
  • Ongoing platform administration and optimization
  • 24/7 monitoring and incident response
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Identity Governance & Administration

Who has access — and should they?

SailPoint Custom IGA

IAM tells your systems who someone is. IGA asks a harder question: given everything they have access to, is that appropriate? Access rights accumulate over time — across role changes, project assignments, and departmental moves — until nobody is sure what anyone actually has.

IGA brings order to that complexity. Regular access certifications, automated role-based access control, and clear audit trails mean you can answer compliance questions confidently — not scramble before an audit.

We build and run your IGA program so your business maintains clean, defensible access records at all times.

What's Included

  • Access certification campaigns and reporting
  • Role mining and role-based access control design
  • Separation of duties (SoD) conflict detection
  • Automated provisioning and deprovisioning
  • Compliance reporting for SOC2, HIPAA, and more
  • Access request workflow management
  • Continuous access risk monitoring
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Privileged Access Management

Protecting your most dangerous credentials

CyberArk BeyondTrust HashiCorp Vault

Admin accounts, service accounts, root credentials — privileged access is the highest-value target in your environment. It's also the most frequently mismanaged. Shared passwords, standing admin rights, and unrotated service account credentials are the entry points behind the majority of serious breaches.

PAM vaults your privileged credentials, enforces just-in-time access for administrative tasks, records privileged sessions, and rotates secrets automatically — so no single credential ever represents a single point of failure.

We implement and operate your PAM program so your most dangerous credentials are always under control.

What's Included

  • Privileged credential vaulting and rotation
  • Just-in-time (JIT) privileged access workflows
  • Privileged session monitoring and recording
  • Service account discovery and management
  • Secrets management for DevOps pipelines
  • Break-glass emergency access procedures
  • Privileged access reporting and audit trails

DNS Performance & Security

The layer nobody else is watching

Dedicated Infra Sub-8ms VPN-Ready

Every single network request your organization makes begins with a DNS lookup. Your identity provider authentication, your cloud application connections, your API calls — all of them start at DNS. Yet most organizations route this through shared ISP infrastructure with no performance SLA and no visibility.

Cipherion provides dedicated DNS resolver infrastructure deployed in Texas-based data centers. Your VPN server points to our resolver and every remote employee behind it benefits automatically — zero client-side configuration, one network change, entire workforce covered.

Faster DNS means faster authentication, faster application response, and an additional layer of visibility into your organization's network behavior.

What's Included

  • Dedicated resolver infrastructure — not shared
  • Sub-8ms average resolution time
  • VPN-level deployment — one config, all users covered
  • IP-level access control and whitelisting
  • Scales from 100 to 10,000+ VPN users
  • Uptime SLA with dedicated support
  • DNS query monitoring and anomaly alerting
Real World Example
What This Looks Like In Practice
A hypothetical but entirely typical scenario for a mid-size Texas organization.
📋 Case Study

Regional Financial Services Firm — Dallas, TX

450 employees. 280 working remotely. Okta deployed 3 years ago but never properly configured. SailPoint licensed but not implemented. No PAM solution. Using ISP default DNS. Upcoming SOC2 audit in 90 days.

⚠ Before Cipherion

47 former employees still had active Okta accounts — discovered during initial audit. Three had active application sessions.
IT team spending 6+ hours per week on manual access requests and password resets that should be automated.
12 shared admin credentials for critical financial systems — no individual accountability, no session recording.
Remote workforce DNS routing through ISP default — no visibility, no performance optimization, no anomaly detection.
SOC2 audit prep estimated at 6 weeks of manual access review work with no tooling to support it.

✓ After Cipherion

Automated joiner/mover/leaver workflows eliminate orphaned accounts. Terminated employees are deprovisioned within minutes of HR action.
Self-service access requests and automated approvals eliminate manual IT overhead. Access is provisioned in minutes, not days.
All privileged credentials vaulted. Just-in-time access for admin tasks. Every privileged session recorded and auditable.
One DNS config change at the VPN level covers all 280 remote employees. Sub-8ms resolution, full visibility, anomaly alerting active.
SOC2 audit prep reduced to days. Access certifications run automatically. Audit trail reports generated on demand.
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This organization went from a reactive, fragmented identity posture to a fully governed, continuously monitored identity program — without hiring additional headcount. Cipherion runs the entire stack as a managed service. Their IT team focuses on the business. We handle identity.

How We Work
Simple Engagement Process
No RFPs. No 6-month procurement cycles. A direct conversation to a working solution.
1

Discovery Call

30-minute conversation. We listen. You describe where you are, what's broken, and what's coming — audit, merger, growth, compliance deadline.

2

Assessment

We assess your current identity posture — what tools you have, how they're configured, where the gaps are. No assumptions. Just facts.

3

Program Design

We design the managed program around your environment, your compliance requirements, and your timeline. You approve before anything is touched.

4

Managed Operations

We deploy, configure, and operate your full identity stack. Ongoing management, monitoring, and optimization — all included.

Start the Conversation

Let's Talk About
Your Identity Program

No pitch deck. No sales process. A direct conversation with someone who has built identity programs at enterprise scale — and can tell you in 30 minutes whether we can help.

Dallas · Houston · Austin · Remote engagements available nationally