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Identity & Access Management
— humans, machines and agents

Identity is the control plane. We design and run IAM for people, workloads and AI agents — passwordless, least privilege, just-in-time, governed for life.

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Topics we cover
Identity & Access ManagementNon-human identity (NHI)Machine identityAI agent identityPasswordless / passkeys / FIDO2Phishing-resistant MFAConditional AccessPrivileged Access Management (PAM)Just-in-time accessIdentity Governance & Administration (IGA)Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM)ITDRWorkload identity federationSecrets managementCIEM
Status quo · late 2026

What has changed — and why it matters now

01

Machines outnumber people

Non-human identities outnumber humans by tens to one in cloud estates, and AI agents now mint their own tokens. Ungoverned NHI is the defining identity gap of 2026.

02

Passwords are leaving

Passkeys and phishing-resistant MFA are the baseline; device-bound credentials and token protection close the session-theft hole that legacy MFA left open.

03

Posture, not provisioning

ISPM and ITDR tools continuously score identity risk — dormant admins, stale keys, risky consents — and feed the SOC.

How we approach it

Our method for Identity & Access Management

01InventoryHuman, service, workload and agent identities; secrets and keys; entitlements across clouds and SaaS.
02ArchitectureIdentity provider strategy, federation, Conditional Access policy set, PAM tiering, workload identity federation.
03GovernJoiner-mover-leaver automation, access reviews, SoD, certification campaigns, birthright roles.
04Agent identityPer-agent identities, scoped tokens, MCP-layer authorisation, human-in-the-loop for privileged actions, full audit trail.
05MonitorITDR detections, ISPM scoring, credential hygiene KPIs.
In depth

Capabilities

Workforce identity

SSO, passkeys, Conditional Access, device compliance, lifecycle automation.

Privileged access

PAM vaulting, JIT elevation, session recording, break-glass.

Workload & NHI

Managed identities, SPIFFE/SPIRE, short-lived tokens, secret rotation, key inventory.

Customer identity (CIAM)

B2C/B2B federation, consent, fraud signals.

Access governance

IGA, entitlement management, reviews and compliance evidence.

What you get

Deliverables

IAM architectureMFA · SSO · PAMLifecycle automationFederated identityAccess governance & audits
Technology-agnostic

Platforms we work across

We design for the outcome first and choose the platform second — across Microsoft, AWS and Google Cloud, and every major AI provider.

Microsoft Entra ID & Entra Permissions ManagementAWS IAM Identity CenterGoogle Cloud IAMOktaCyberArkHashiCorp VaultSailPointSaviynt
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