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Identity & Access Architecture

Identity and access management architecture for people, applications, workloads, and AI agents across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.

THE WORK, IN CONTEXT

Identity & Access Architecture, with a clear purpose.

Identity decides who and what gets into your systems and what they can touch once inside. The failures are specific: a guessed or reused password, a machine credential that never expires, a partner directory trusted too broadly, or a login accepted by the wrong service. Four services address those decisions. Enterprise Identity Architecture covers the directories, sign-in systems, and privileged access your workforce depends on. AI Agent & Non-Human Identity covers the service accounts, workloads, automation, and agents that act without a person present. Identity Federation & Multi-Identity Solutions covers trust between separate tenants, partners, clouds, and acquired companies. Authentication, Authorization & Permission Design covers how people prove identity and how permissions are structured. The same principal scopes, performs, and reports each engagement, working from read access to the identity systems you actually run rather than from questionnaires. This is design and readiness work, not an independent audit.

A GOOD FIT WHEN

For CISOs, identity and platform engineering leads, and CTOs who run one or more identity systems across cloud and on-premises. The trigger is usually a migration, an acquisition, an agent rollout, or a customer security review that asks how access is controlled.

THE WORK BEHIND THE SERVICE

What we do.
What you can use.

Scope the identity estate

We agree in writing which tenants, directories, cloud accounts, applications, and agent platforms are in play. We list the read-only access we need and the owners we will interview. We also record the decisions the design must settle, such as whether to consolidate environments or federate them.

Review configuration, not questionnaires

We export and read the actual state: sign-in and access policies, authentication methods, privileged role assignments, directory synchronization, cross-tenant settings, machine credentials, and cloud permissions. Interviews explain why a setting exists; the export shows what it does. We then map how ordinary access chains into administrative control.

Hand over designs your team can build

You receive current and target state diagrams, a findings register with owner and effort, named policy sets and role models, and a sequenced migration plan with pilots and rollback. After your team implements, we re-read the configuration and record evidence that each change landed.

FIND YOUR FOCUS

Specific services.
Substantive answers.

01 / Identity & Access Architecture

Enterprise Identity Architecture

Directory, identity provider, and privileged access design for your workforce, built from the actual configuration rather than a questionnaire.

  • Inventory of directories, sign-in systems, and cloud access with their synchronization topology
  • Export and review of every access policy, its exceptions, and outdated sign-in methods still allowed
  • Standing versus on-demand privileged role membership across directories and cloud platforms

From $6,000

Scope, pricing & FAQs
02 / Identity & Access Architecture

AI Agent & Non-Human Identity

Inventory, credential strategy, permission scoping, and lifecycle for the service accounts, workloads, automation, and AI agents that act without a person present.

  • Inventory of workloads, service accounts, agents, access keys, and pipeline identities across platforms
  • Owner, purpose, credential age, last use, and permissions recorded for each non-human identity
  • Risk scoring against the common failures of non-human identities, including long-lived secrets and human reuse

From $6,000

Scope, pricing & FAQs
03 / Identity & Access Architecture

Identity Federation & Multi-Identity Solutions

Trust design between identity providers, directories, clouds, and acquired tenants, with a decision on merge, sync, or coexist.

  • Trust inventory of federations, directory trusts, cross-tenant settings, and guest relationships
  • Review of inbound and outbound trust for sign-in strength and device claims per partner
  • Consolidate, synchronize, or coexist decision for each acquired environment and directory

From $4,800

Scope, pricing & FAQs
04 / Identity & Access Architecture

Authentication, Authorization & Permission Design

Phishing-resistant sign-in targets, secure standards for issuing and accepting sign-in tokens, and an authorization model chosen per system so permissions survive growth.

  • Strength-of-proof target per user population and resource
  • Phishing-resistant rollout plan covering hardware keys, device-based sign-in, and certificates
  • Password policy set to current guidance: length, no forced composition or rotation, breach screening

From $4,800

Scope, pricing & FAQs
WHAT YOU TAKE FORWARD

Built to support the next decision.

  • Current and target state identity architecture diagrams covering people, workloads, agents, and trust relationships
  • Findings register with severity, affected identities, a fix written for the implementer, an owner, and an effort estimate
  • Named policy sets and role models ready to build: access policies, just-in-time access, cross-tenant access, and cloud permission guardrails
  • Sequenced migration plan with monitoring-only stages, pilot groups, break-glass procedure, and rollback steps
  • Post-implementation validation record showing each agreed change present in the exported configuration

The selected services, deliverables, access requirements, and any follow-up validation are agreed in your engagement scope.

INFORMED BY RECOGNIZED GUIDANCE
START AT THE SOURCE

Let’s find your next move.

A focused conversation. A clear scope. A practical path to stronger security.

Let’s talk security