MAITS — Securing what mattersIAM Health Check

Privacy as principle · Identity as control

Identity & access.
Done right.

MAITS secures the relationships between people, organisations, applications and digital services — with specialist identity engineering built for the real world.

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MAITS connects identity, authentication, access, governance and digital trust across people, organisations, devices and applications.
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The identity control plane

Trust starts with identity.

Every access decision begins with a person, workload or organisation that must be known, authenticated and governed.

MAITS helps organisations make those decisions deliberately. We connect identity strategy, technical architecture and operational governance so that access supports the business without becoming an unmanaged source of risk.

From Microsoft Entra and cloud identity through to identity governance, privileged access, customer identity and digital credentials, our work is grounded in privacy, least privilege and pragmatic delivery.

How MAITS works

Why leadership should care

Identity and access risk is a business risk, not only a technical one.

Boards and executives inherit the consequences of identity failure — regulatory exposure, audit findings and operational disruption — even when the detail sits with a technical team.

REGULATORY EXPOSURE

Access you cannot explain is access you cannot defend

Regulators, auditors and insurers increasingly expect organisations to demonstrate who can reach what, and why. Ungoverned identity and access widens that exposure.

AUDIT READINESS

Evidence, not assurances

A governed identity estate can produce timely, credible evidence of access decisions. An ungoverned one relies on assurances that are hard to verify under scrutiny.

BOARD REPORTING

A reportable, not just a technical, metric

Identity and access posture is a legitimate line item for board and risk-committee reporting alongside other operational risk indicators.

OPERATIONAL RESILIENCE

Fewer single points of failure

Clear ownership, least privilege and lifecycle discipline reduce the chance that one compromised account or forgotten permission causes material disruption.

Specialist capability

Identity systems that remain secure as organisations change.

Strategy, engineering and governance treated as one connected identity discipline.

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Microsoft Entra

Architecture, Conditional Access, authentication, External ID, governance and privileged access.

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Access & governance

Lifecycle, roles, approvals, reviews, segregation of duties and least-privilege controls that hold up under scrutiny.

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04

Identity integration

Federation, SSO, provisioning and API patterns that connect identity throughout the application lifecycle.

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MAITS products & managed services

Evidence. Authority. Assurance.

Three distinct propositions across the digital-trust lifecycle—designed to integrate without collapsing into one undifferentiated platform.

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Three distinct propositions contribute to digital trust; none is presented as a mandatory dependency on the others.
01 / TRUSTED EVIDENCE

DiligenceID

What evidence can I trust?

Issue, verify and govern reusable digital credentials and organisational authority — so people and organisations prove a fact once, not repeatedly.

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Delegance

Who is authorised to act?

Delegate access and authority through explicit scope, policy, approval, expiry and review — turning informal permission into a governed, auditable decision.

Explore Delegance →03 / CONTINUOUS ASSURANCE

Vigilance

How do I know when trust is at risk?

Monitor identity, access, applications and digital-trust signals through to response — keeping assurance continuous rather than a point-in-time check.

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Connected capability

From directory foundation to digital trust.

MAITS works across the full identity and access chain. The architecture makes every hand-off — and every control decision — explicit.

MAITS identity and access capability mapSix connected layers move from identity foundation through authentication, access, lifecycle and governance to digital trust.FOUNDATIONIdentityActive DirectoryHybrid identityEntra ID · SyncESTABLISHAuthenticatePasskeys · FIDO2MFA · WHfBRecoveryDECIDEAccessConditional AccessRBAC · rolesExternal accessPrivilegePolicy at the centreDELIVERLifecycleSCIM · GraphProvisioningCustom connectorsPROVEGovern & trustPIM · reviews · SoDDiligenceIDVerified credentialsPEOPLE · WORKLOADS · ORGANISATIONSASSURANCE · OWNERSHIP · EVIDENCE
MAITS designs the connections between directory, authentication, access, lifecycle, governance and portable digital trust.

Problems we solve

The hard identity work between policy and production.

01Our B2C platform needs a safe migration path.External ID migration →02Strong authentication is fragmented or easy to bypass.Passkeys & Conditional Access →03We cannot explain who has access, why, or for how long.Identity governance →04Applications sign users in, but lifecycle and removal are manual.Identity integration →05People repeatedly surrender documents to prove one fact.Read MAITS's perspective on DiligenceID →

From question to control

Specialist advice that carries through to operation.

Identity programmes succeed when risk, architecture, delivery, governance and assurance are treated as one connected problem.

01 / UNDERSTAND

Establish the current position

Clarify the business outcome, trust boundary, material risk and the people accountable for it.

02 / DESIGN

Make the architecture intentional

Define identity sources, authentication, access policy, lifecycle and integration as a coherent control system.

03 / IMPLEMENT

Turn design into working controls

Sequence change around the existing estate, operating capacity and dependencies that matter in production.

04 / GOVERN

Connect ownership to operation

Attach lifecycle, evidence and accountable ownership so access decisions remain sustainable day to day.

05 / ASSURE

Keep trust explainable

Test whether controls remain visible, owned and governable as identities, applications and risks change.

Ways to engage MAITS

Start wherever the problem currently sits.

Engagements can begin with a question, a risk or a fully scoped programme — the shape adapts to what the organisation needs.

ADVISORY

Independent strategic guidance

Clarify direction, priorities and trade-offs before committing to a platform or technical path.

ASSESSMENT

Understand current state

Establish risk, maturity and control gaps across identity, access and digital trust — including the IAM Health Check.

ARCHITECTURE

Design target states

Translate intent into identity, access and integration architecture that fits the organisation's environment.

DELIVERY

Support or lead implementation

Carry an architecture through configuration, migration and rollout alongside internal or partner teams.

ASSURANCE

Review controls and readiness

Independently review architecture, implementation and operational readiness against what was intended.

Who we work with

Identity expertise for organisations where trust matters.

01

Government & public sector

Governed identity and secure access across complex public services.

02

Enterprise & regulated

Auditability, control and resilience for demanding environments.

03

Technology & digital

Modern identity architecture for platforms, products and services.

04

Education & research

Identity for diverse communities, roles and collaboration models.

05

Small & medium organisations

Practical security improvement without unnecessary complexity.

Identity & Access Health Check

Know where identity risk is hiding.

An independent view of authentication, access, lifecycle, privilege and governance controls, with practical priorities for improvement.

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01Identity architecture
02Authentication
03Access & privilege
04Lifecycle
05Governance
06Visibility & ownership

DiligenceID · Digital trust

Trusted evidence that can travel.

DiligenceID extends MAITS’ identity capability into reusable digital credentials — helping organisations issue, hold and verify the evidence needed for a transaction.

It complements established identity platforms, including Microsoft Entra Verified ID, rather than asking organisations to replace them.

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Make identity a source of control, not friction.

Bring us the identity challenge, risk or programme that needs clear thinking. We’ll start with the environment you already have.

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