Identity & Access Architecture

Access accumulates. People change roles and keep old permissions, shared accounts are created for convenience, contractors leave with credentials still valid, and cloud roles are granted broadly to make something work. Each is small; together they are how attackers move once they are in. Nobody can produce a current list of who can access what.

Organisations with many applications and separate logins, cloud accounts with hand granted permissions, admin access shared by a team, systems accessed by partners and contractors, and audit findings about leaver access and privileged accounts.

We design identity as one system: a central identity provider, single sign on for applications, multi factor authentication everywhere it matters, and roles defined by job rather than by request history. Privileged access is separated, time limited and logged. Joiner, mover and leaver processes are automated so access follows the person's role. Cloud identity gets the same treatment, with least privilege enforced by policy rather than by memory.

We inventory identities, applications and permissions, then design the target model with your HR and IT owners. Implementation is phased: identity provider and MFA first, then applications onto single sign on in order of risk, then privileged access and cloud policies. Each phase ends with an access review so that the clean state is verified, not assumed.

A single, current answer to who can access what, and the controls that keep it that way.

• Identity architecture, role model and access policies
• Single sign on, MFA and privileged access implemented across applications and cloud
• Automated joiner, mover and leaver processes and periodic access reviews

Fewer ways for an attacker to move, less friction for staff who sign in once, clean answers for auditors, and no more discovering that a former contractor still has the keys.