Identity lifecycle
Examine how accounts are created, granted access, reviewed, changed, and removed. Consider employees, contractors, administrators, service accounts, and third-party integrations as distinct access relationships.
Cloud & identity security
Control the access.
Connect the environment.
Review the relationships between cloud configuration, identities, administrative access, and the information moving through your platforms.
When to start
Cloud change, account sprawl, or unclear access ownership.
The direction
Configuration findings and access-hardening priorities.
First conversation
45-minute consultation
Delivery scope and schedule agreed separately.A focused engagement
Access, configuration,
and the connections between.
Cloud and identity decisions are closely connected. A configuration can appear reasonable in isolation while a permissive account, inherited role, or neglected integration creates a wider exposure. We scope the review around those relationships.
Platform configuration
Review agreed controls around administrative roles, authentication, logging, sharing, and critical workloads. The platform, subscription, and access required for each part of the review are defined during scoping.
Operational ownership
Identify who approves changes, monitors important events, responds to suspicious access, and handles exceptions. A recommendation needs a clear owner and an understanding of its effect on real work.
Useful beyond the report
What you receive.
The proposal specifies the final deliverables. A typical scoped engagement can include the following.
- Agreed platform and identity review boundaries
- Configuration and access findings with evidence
- Prioritized hardening recommendations
- Review meeting with platform owners and stakeholders
Scope before commitment.
Assessment depth, systems, testing permissions, implementation, retesting, and reporting are agreed in writing. Consultation length is not the delivery time for the wider engagement.
From scope to action
Know the steps.
Understand the work.
Scope, access, deliverables, schedule, and responsibilities are agreed before delivery begins.
Discover
Discuss the trigger, business priorities, and the environment at a high level.
Scope
Agree boundaries, responsibilities, access, schedule, and deliverables.
Deliver
Carry out the agreed review, testing, planning, or advisory activity.
Review
Walk through findings, limitations, priorities, and the next decisions.
Before the first conversation
Bring the context.
Keep access separate.
Start with a high-level picture. Sensitive evidence and access arrangements belong in an agreed process after scoping.
- A list of platforms, tenants, and important integrations
- A high-level view of roles and administrative ownership
- Known access, sharing, or account recovery concerns
- Relevant change windows and business dependencies
Before we begin
Good questions.
Clear expectations.
The details that make a better engagement.
Will you need global administrator access?
Access requirements depend on scope. Discuss read-only options and least-privilege access with the team before providing permissions. Do not submit credentials in an appointment form.
Does the review include implementing every change?
Assessment and implementation are distinct scopes. The engagement identifies whether remediation, change support, and validation are included.