Defending identities

New employees, applications and business relationships continually change your access requirements. Acquisitions, cloud adoption and remote working can add complexity, particularly when different systems use different identity processes.

Accounts may remain active after people leave. Employees can retain permissions from previous roles. Privileged access can become permanent when it was only intended for a temporary task.

These gaps are not always obvious until an incident or audit exposes them. Without clear ownership and regular review, your organisation may struggle to explain who has access, why they need it and whether it remains appropriate.

Identity security now extends well beyond employees. Service accounts, applications and automated processes need access to systems and information. AI agents introduce further questions because they may use several tools, retrieve sensitive information or take actions on someone’s behalf.

An agent needs a defined purpose, an accountable owner and permissions that reflect its responsibilities. Its access also needs to change when its role changes and end when it is no longer required.

Applying these controls consistently helps prevent automation from creating unmanaged access.

An attacker using a valid account may initially look like an authorised user. Authentication alone cannot establish whether every subsequent action is appropriate.

Your organisation needs controls that reduce opportunities for compromise, alongside monitoring and response capabilities that identify misuse. Prevention, governance and detection must work together.

Our identity advisory services examine your environment, processes and security controls to identify weaknesses and improvement priorities.

We help you understand where permissions are excessive, governance is inconsistent or existing technology is not delivering its intended value. Findings inform a practical roadmap that reflects your business objectives, resources and current maturity.

This gives your teams a clear basis for deciding which improvements to make first.

Our Access Management services help you secure authentication and access across your applications.

Capabilities such as SSO, federation and MFA support consistent controls while reducing unnecessary friction for authorised users. We help you assess requirements, implement appropriate technology and improve existing deployments.

The aim is to make access manageable for employees and administrators while applying protection that reflects the sensitivity of the systems involved.

Privileged accounts can make significant changes to your environment. Their permissions require close control because misuse can have consequences across multiple systems.

Our Privileged Access Management services help you reduce unnecessary standing access, apply least privilege and introduce just-in-time access where appropriate.

We support the assessment, implementation and ongoing management of privileged access capabilities, helping you maintain oversight of powerful accounts and administrative activity.

Our Identity Support and Managed Services connects access decisions to business responsibilities.

We help you improve joiner, mover and leaver processes, establish access reviews and address permissions that are no longer justified. Clear ownership makes it easier for managers and application owners to assess access rather than relying entirely on IT.

Better governance also supports assurance by making access decisions easier to explain and review.

Customer Identity and Access Management helps you secure access to customer-facing and partner services.

We support approaches that balance appropriate authentication with a straightforward user experience. Requirements can differ between business customers, consumers and external partners, so the design needs to reflect the people using the service.

Our specialists help you assess those requirements and implement or optimise the supporting capabilities.

Our AI Identity Framework consultancy helps you establish controls for AI agents and related non-human identities.

We address ownership, classification, lifecycle management and access to data and tools. We also help define where approval or additional oversight is needed before an agent performs a sensitive action.

This supports AI adoption with clearer accountability and permissions that match the intended use case.

Our MDR services help identify and investigate activity associated with compromised or misused accounts.

We also offer Identity Detection and Response as part of our MDR services to detect and respond to identity related incidents such as compromised or misused accounts and identities including direct integration with identity fabric such as MS Entra for proactive response.