Toolkit, Reference

Reference

These are not steps. Come to them when the work sends you here: the figures, the catalog, the language, and the frameworks behind the book.

Reference material

The figures, in full color

All thirty-one figures from the book at full size and in full color. The printed interior is grayscale; these are not. Free to download and reuse with credit.

Identity System Catalog

The full field set for how identity behaves inside every system, plus the fillable workbook.

Glossary

The complete, searchable glossary: a clear, practical vocabulary for human, nonhuman, and AI identity.

Frameworks & references

How the model maps to NIST, ISO, the EU AI Act, and GDPR, with links to every source.

Quotable

Nearly a hundred of the book's one-liners, grouped by topic with their chapters. Copy any line with attribution, ready to share.

Reporting Dashboards

See what good reporting looks like at four altitudes: operational, governance, executive, and the board. Download the Excel and PowerPoint templates, plus a completed example, to build your own.

Companion guides

Where the book points online

Ownership-model reference

Every kind of owner in the model, what each one decides, and how ownership moves through joiner, mover, leaver, reorganizations, and acquisitions.

Delivery discipline

Getting the model built right: who owns requirements, who signs scope, who tests independently of who built it, and what “done” means.

The metric library

Identity metrics by pillar, with formulas, owners, and cadence, and how to set thresholds from your risk appetite.

Business cases by audience

Each pillar’s case as the board, the CFO, the CISO, and a line-of-business leader each hear it.

Framework walkthrough

Each standard and regulation in plain language, what it asks of identity, and how the operating model answers it.