Beach Energy is an ASX listed oil and gas exploration and production company headquartered in Adelaide, South Australia.

We helped Beach Energy modernise their IAM technology and processes by securing users and applications with a focus on enhancing the end-user experience.

Our work has included the rollout of a centralised cloud Identity Provider including strong authentication and access policies, HR-driven provisioning, roles-based access, automated application provisioning, governance and privileged access management (PAM).

As we know passwords are the weakest link in the user perimeter, so it was essential for Beach Energy to adopt a passwordless approach, aligning their cyber controls with the best practices of Zero Trust Architecture.

Implementing more granular access controls allowed us to enforce the principle of least privilege, allowing access to be granted to users as needed for their role. The concept of zero-standing privileges was further rolled out to privileged users, where access is assigned based on request.

The success story of the modernisation of Beach’s IAM environment has been published in IT News and in Okta’s customer highlights, and led to Beach Energy being nominated for the 2021 IT News benchmark awards.