Identity and privileged access
Authentication, Conditional Access, lifecycle, privilege, administrative separation, service accounts and access governance.
Cyber security uplift
Prioritise the controls.
Carry them into operation.
MAITS helps organisations assess security risk, design proportionate controls, remediate priority gaps and establish the ownership and evidence needed to sustain improvement.
Practical progression
Assess → Prioritise → Design → Remediate → Validate → Operationalise. Work can cover one control area or a connected uplift programme.
Security coverage
Connect control priorities across the organisation.
Scope is selected around material risk, obligations, architecture and operating capacity—not treated as an unlimited checklist.
Endpoints and administration
Device assurance, management, hardening, endpoint privilege, administrative workstations and response visibility.
Cloud and workloads
Human and workload identity, RBAC, secrets, policy, exposure, network boundaries, logging and platform governance.
Applications and APIs
Authentication, authorisation, registration, secrets, API controls, dependency risk and secure delivery practices.
Logging, monitoring and incidents
Useful telemetry, detection ownership, escalation, incident readiness, runbooks and evidence capture.
Vulnerability, backup and recovery
Vulnerability ownership, remediation, backup integrity, recovery testing, continuity and critical-service resilience.
Governance and suppliers
Control ownership, policy, risk acceptance, reporting, supplier assurance and an accountable improvement programme.
Zero Trust and security architecture
Trust boundaries, segmentation, least privilege, verification, data protection and coherent target-state design.
Security uplift method
Move from findings to controlled improvement.
Establish the position
Review evidence, architecture, controls, threats, obligations, dependencies and ownership.
Focus on material risk
Separate urgent remediation, foundational controls and longer-term capability work.
Define target controls
Set architecture, policy, operating responsibility, evidence and implementation sequence.
Implement improvement
Configure, integrate, document and roll out controls with accountable teams.
Test effectiveness
Confirm expected behaviour, exceptions, recovery, evidence and residual risk.
Sustain the control
Embed monitoring, maintenance, review, reporting and continuing ownership.
Readiness and alignment
Prepare evidence and controls without confusing readiness with certification.
MAITS supports gap assessment, control mapping, implementation, remediation, evidence preparation and audit preparation. Certification and independent audit decisions remain with the relevant independent body.
NZISM alignment
Map applicable guidance to architecture, control ownership, implementation evidence and priority remediation.
Protective Security Requirements alignment
Connect governance, personnel, information and physical-security responsibilities to the organisation’s environment.
Information security readiness
Support gap assessment, ISMS implementation, control mapping, evidence preparation, remediation and audit preparation.
AI management readiness
Where relevant, assess governance, risk, lifecycle, accountability and evidence needs for an AI management system.
Expected deliverables
Give leaders and delivery teams a usable basis for action.
Engagement outputs reflect the scope and decision. They can include a current-state assessment, maturity position, material risks, prioritised remediation, target architecture, implementation backlog, roadmap and control evidence plan.
Current-state assessmentMaturity positionRisk prioritiesTarget architectureRemediation backlogSecurity roadmapControl evidence
Advice through implementation
Use MAITS for one stage or the complete uplift path.
Understand the decision
Clarify the people, systems, obligations, constraints, ownership and outcome involved.
Establish current state
Review evidence, architecture, controls, risk, capability and delivery readiness.
Define the target
Set principles, architecture, policy, operating ownership and a practical change sequence.
Implement the change
Configure, integrate, automate, migrate and roll out alongside accountable teams.
Test the outcome
Review behaviour, evidence, exceptions, recovery, readiness and residual risk.
Transfer capability
Embed knowledge, governance, runbooks, measures and an owned improvement path.
Start a conversation
Turn security priorities into an owned uplift plan.
Bring the concerns, obligations, programme or control gaps. MAITS can help establish scope, priorities and the right delivery path.