Technical Leadership
Fractional leadership, enterprise and solution architecture, technical governance, delivery assurance and engineering uplift.
Explore Technical LeadershipConsulting · Technology · Digital trust
Senior technical expertise.
Applied to delivery.
MAITS is a specialist technology consultancy and product business. We provide technical leadership, architecture, cyber security, identity and access, cloud, digital identity and implementation support.
Technical leadershipCyber securityIdentity & accessCloud & architectureDigital identityTechnical delivery
MAITS consulting
Lead, secure and deliver difficult technology change.
Five primary consulting capabilities connect senior advice to architecture, implementation, assurance and knowledge transfer.
Cyber Security
Security maturity, architecture, Zero Trust, cloud controls, readiness, remediation and operational assurance.
Explore Cyber SecurityIdentity & Access
IAM, identity security, IGA, PAM, CIAM, RBAC, ABAC, passkeys, lifecycle and governance.
Explore Identity & AccessDigital Identity
Trust models, credential use cases, wallet and verification architecture, privacy and reusable evidence.
Explore Digital IdentityAdvisory & Delivery
Consulting hours, assessments, workshops, retained support, technical delivery, assurance and training.
Explore Advisory & DeliveryTake back control
Digital trust for people and organisations.
People should be able to understand and control identity, authority and security. Organisations should be able to build trusted services around reusable evidence, governed authority and continuous assurance.
Use capability without learning the standards
Start with reusable identity through DiligenceID, understand authority through Delegance, and learn what security changes need attention through Vigilance.
Build trust without replacing every relationship
Connect reusable identity to existing customer and member accounts, govern who may act, and maintain visibility as risk changes.
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 worksWhy 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Identity delivery depth
Identity systems that remain secure as organisations change.
Strategy, engineering and governance treated as one connected identity discipline.
Microsoft Entra
Architecture, Conditional Access, authentication, External ID, governance and privileged access.
Explore Microsoft EntraIGA & access governance
Lifecycle, roles, approvals, reviews, segregation of duties and least-privilege controls that hold up under scrutiny.
Explore IGA & access governanceCIAM
Customer registration, authentication, recovery, consent, federation, account linking and lifecycle.
Explore CIAMIdentity integration
Federation, SSO, provisioning and API patterns that connect identity throughout the application lifecycle.
Explore Identity integrationPAM & privileged identity
Privilege discovery, Entra PIM, eligible access, strong authentication, emergency access and operational governance.
Explore PAM & privileged identityPasskeys & identity security
Passkeys, FIDO2, Conditional Access, device assurance, registration, recovery and rollout.
Explore Passkeys & identity securityMAITS products & managed services
Evidence. Authority. Assurance.
Three distinct propositions across the digital-trust lifecycle—designed to integrate without collapsing into one undifferentiated platform.
01 / TRUSTED EVIDENCE
DiligenceID
What can be proven?Give people a reusable identity and trusted credentials while organisations retain their own accounts, services and relationships.
Explore DiligenceID →02 / CONTROLLED AUTHORITYDelegance
Who may act?Help people understand authority and help organisations govern scope, approval, expiry and review.
Explore Delegance →03 / CONTINUOUS ASSURANCEVigilance
When is trust at risk?Shine light on relevant change and help organisations turn security signals into owned response and assurance.
Explore Vigilance →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.
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 & identity security →03We cannot explain who has access, why, or for how long.IGA & access governance →04Applications sign users in, but lifecycle and removal are manual.Identity integration →05Roles and permissions have grown without an owned access model.RBAC & ABAC →
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.
Establish the current position
Clarify the business outcome, trust boundary, material risk and the people accountable for it.
Make the architecture intentional
Define identity sources, authentication, access policy, lifecycle and integration as a coherent control system.
Turn design into working controls
Sequence change around the existing estate, operating capacity and dependencies that matter in production.
Connect ownership to operation
Attach lifecycle, evidence and accountable ownership so access decisions remain sustainable day to day.
Keep trust explainable
Test whether controls remain visible, owned and governable as identities, applications and risks change.
Ways to engage MAITS
Start with one question or a complete programme.
Use MAITS for advisory hours, assessments, workshops, retained or fractional leadership, technical delivery, independent assurance and training.
Who we work with
Identity expertise for organisations where trust matters.
Government & public sector
Governed identity and secure access across complex public services.
Enterprise & regulated
Auditability, control and resilience for demanding environments.
Technology & digital
Modern identity architecture for platforms, products and services.
Education & research
Identity for diverse communities, roles and collaboration models.
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.
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.
Start a conversation
Bring the programme, risk or technical decision.
MAITS can provide a focused specialist engagement, embedded leadership or delivery support across a larger programme.