Identity advisory assessment
Understand where identity and access risk exists before it becomes an access, security or governance problem.
MAITS provides a structured review of identity controls, architecture and governance, then converts the findings into practical priorities.
Assessment scope is agreed around the organisation’s environment, priorities and material identity risks.
Assessment model
We assess how identities are established, authenticated, authorised, provisioned, governed, privileged, reviewed, changed and removed.
Why it matters
Identity estates rarely fail because one setting is missing. Risk builds through excessive access, standing privilege, inconsistent authentication, weak lifecycle processes and legacy configuration.
The Health Check connects those technical weaknesses to architecture, operating ownership and governance. It helps expose stale access, unclear trust relationships, control gaps and complexity that makes the environment difficult to secure or explain.
What we review
The exact depth and system coverage are agreed for the engagement. Review areas are selected around material risk rather than treated as an unlimited audit.
Understand how identity is established and where trust and ownership sit, so complexity does not become an unmanaged source of risk.
Review the strength, usability and resilience of authentication journeys, reducing the risk of account takeover without frustrating users.
Assess whether access policy expresses the intended risk decisions, closing gaps that would otherwise let risky sign-ins through unchecked.
Identify standing administration and weaknesses in privileged identity controls, limiting the damage a single compromised account can cause.
Trace identity and access through joiner, mover and leaver events, so access is removed reliably rather than left behind.
Review how access decisions are owned, approved and reconfirmed, giving the organisation evidence it can produce under audit.
Examine trust and lifecycle for parties outside the workforce boundary, so external access ends when the relationship does.
Assess how applications consume identity, claims, roles and lifecycle events, reducing manual work and inconsistent access decisions.
Determine whether identity control outcomes are visible and explainable, so issues surface before they become incidents.
What the organisation receives
The outcome is proportionate to the agreed scope and designed to give leaders and identity teams a usable basis for action.
A concise view of material identity and access risks, weaknesses and ownership concerns identified within scope.
Separation of urgent remediation from longer-term identity modernisation opportunities.
Identification of unnecessary complexity, legacy patterns, trust assumptions and control gaps.
A sensible sequence for improving identity security, governance and operational maturity.
A practical starting point
You do not need to know the solution before engaging MAITS. The Health Check establishes the current position first.
Professional scope
Assessment scope is agreed around the organisation’s environment, priorities and material identity risks. Relevant tenants, platforms, applications, populations and control areas are identified before review begins.
The Health Check is an identity advisory assessment. It is not a certification, formal audit or guarantee of compliance or security improvement.
Start a conversation
Tell us what has changed, what feels least controlled, or which modernisation decision is approaching. We’ll agree a useful assessment scope.
