Workforce
Employees and internal teams using business systems.
Privileged users
Administrators with elevated or sensitive access.
Customers
People accessing digital products and services.
Partners and suppliers
External organisations connecting to shared resources.
Workloads and machines
Applications, APIs, services, devices and automation identities.
Most access failures begin long before the suspicious login.
Identity risk develops through the entire account lifecycle. A user may be given excessive access when joining, retain old privileges after changing roles or remain active after the business relationship ends. Service accounts and application credentials can continue even longer because ownership is unclear.
Authentication is one control within this wider system. Digisecuritas examines how identities are created, verified, authorised, monitored, changed and removed so that each access decision has a valid business basis.
Unverified identity
The organisation cannot establish enough confidence in who or what received the account.
Excessive privilege
Access exceeds the duties, duration or systems required.
Persistent access
Accounts, sessions or credentials remain active after the need has ended.
Weak recovery paths
Password resets, emergency access or helpdesk procedures bypass stronger controls.
THE ACCESS DECISION CHAIN
Trust should be evaluated each time access is requested
Access should change when the relationship changes
The lifecycle must cover downstream applications and local accounts, not only the central identity provider.
Identity security services shaped around real access paths
Each service is scoped around the identity populations, platforms and access paths that matter most to your organisation.
Identity and access security assessment
Review identity architecture, account lifecycles, authentication, authorisation, privilege and monitoring across the agreed environment.
Identity governance and administration review
Assess how identities are created, changed, certified and removed. Examine ownership, approval, role design, access reviews and joiner, mover and leaver processes.
Privileged access assessment
Identify elevated access paths across cloud, on-premises, applications, databases, infrastructure and security tooling. Review whether privilege is isolated, approved, time-bound and monitored.
Authentication and MFA assessment
Review authentication methods, enrolment, coverage, exceptions, recovery paths and high-risk access. Define a practical path towards stronger and phishing-resistant authentication.
Access-control and entitlement review
Examine roles, groups, permissions and application entitlements to identify excessive access, conflicting privileges and unclear ownership.
Service account and machine identity assessment
Review non-human identities such as service accounts, API credentials, certificates, secrets and automation identities.
Federation and single sign-on assessment
Assess trust relationships, federation configuration, single sign-on coverage, claims, application onboarding and failure paths.
Customer identity security review
Assess registration, authentication, account recovery, session management, fraud dependencies, customer privacy and administrative access to customer identities.
Administrative privilege often exists outside the PAM platform
Privileged access paths extend across cloud, infrastructure, applications, security systems, endpoints and suppliers.
Privileged access
Cloud administration
Tenant, subscription and cloud-platform roles.
Infrastructure
Servers, networks, virtualisation and storage.
Applications and databases
Administrative consoles, database roles and support access.
Security systems
Identity platforms, SIEM, endpoint and security-control administration.
Endpoints
Local administrator rights and workstation privilege.
Suppliers
Vendor, integrator and outsourced support access.
Questions to answer
Who owns each privileged identity?
Is a separate administrative identity used?
Is privilege permanent or time-bound?
Who approves elevation?
Is the session attributable?
What happens during an emergency?
Can access be revoked quickly?
Is privileged activity reviewed?
Authentication strength should follow the consequence of account compromise
Authentication design should also address enrolment and recovery. A strong authenticator can be undermined by a weak helpdesk reset or an uncontrolled fallback method.
Every identity needs an owner, purpose and lifecycle
Machine identities should not become permanent exceptions simply because they do not follow an employee lifecycle.
Move from static access to evaluated access
Zero Trust should be presented as an architecture and operating model rather than a product. CISA's Zero Trust Maturity Model includes identity alongside devices, networks, applications and workloads, and data.
CISA Zero Trust Maturity Model
HOW WE WORK
Follow access from request to revocation
No tool-led recommendations. No privilege change without agreed ownership and operational safeguards.
STEP 01
Establish scope
Define identity systems, user populations, applications, privileged environments, machine identities and business processes in scope.
STEP 02
Map identity flows
Document how identities are created, verified, federated, authorised, changed and removed.
STEP 03
Review control evidence
Examine architecture, policy, configuration, access records, approval processes, authentication and monitoring.
STEP 04
Trace exposure paths
Identify how an attacker or unauthorised user could move from an identity weakness to a sensitive resource or privileged function.
STEP 05
Validate priorities
Separate material access risk from low-impact configuration issues. Technical validation occurs only where authorised.
STEP 06
Build the roadmap
Define urgent corrections, governance improvements and longer-term architecture decisions with owners and dependencies.
Where identity controls commonly break down
Orphaned accounts
Accounts remain active after the employee, supplier, application or service relationship ends.
Excessive standing privilege
Administrative or sensitive access remains permanently assigned despite infrequent use.
Incomplete MFA coverage
Exceptions, legacy protocols, local accounts or recovery routes bypass the intended authentication control.
Unmanaged service identities
Service accounts and credentials lack named owners, rotation or a defined retirement point.
Weak access reviews
Reviewers approve long entitlement lists without enough business or usage context.
Fragmented identity ownership
HR, IT, security, application teams and suppliers hold separate parts of the lifecycle without shared accountability.
What your organisation receives
Identity security depends on named decisions
The identity platform can automate decisions, but the organisation must still define who owns those decisions.
HR and business operations
Initiate lifecycle events
Confirm employment or contract status
Maintain reliable source data
Communicate role changes
Business and application owners
Define access needs
Approve entitlements
Review access
Confirm removal
Security and IAM teams
Define architecture and policy
Operate identity controls
Monitor identity risk
Support investigation
IT, cloud and platform teams
Integrate applications
Enforce access controls
Manage technical identities
Maintain logs and recovery
When organisations bring Digisecuritas in
SCENARIO 01
Before an IAM or PAM programme
The organisation needs a current-state assessment and clear requirements before selecting, replacing or expanding identity technology.
SCENARIO 02
After an acquisition or tenant integration
Multiple directories, role models, suppliers and administrative teams have created overlapping identities and unclear trust relationships.
SCENARIO 03
When access reviews are not reducing risk
Certification exercises are completed, but reviewers lack enough context to identify excessive or inappropriate access.
SCENARIO 04
Following an identity-led incident
A compromised account, privilege misuse or failed offboarding process has exposed gaps across authentication, authorisation and response.
Independent identity advice without a platform agenda
Access before product
The assessment begins with identities, resources and credible exposure paths rather than a software feature list.
Human and machine coverage
Workforce, privileged, customer, supplier, application and service identities are considered within one risk view.
Governance and technology together
Findings connect policy, ownership, architecture, configuration and operational behaviour.
Priorities teams can execute
The roadmap identifies owners, dependencies and evidence required to confirm that improvements work.
Related solutions
Microsoft Security
Assess Entra ID, Conditional Access and Microsoft-specific identity controls.
Cloud Security
Review cloud roles, workload identities and privileged administration.
Data Protection & Privacy
Align access decisions with the sensitivity and purpose of information.
Detection & Response
Improve the detection and investigation of identity-led attacks.
Technology Consolidation & Architecture
Clarify identity-platform roles, integrations and duplicated capability.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Identity and access security questions, answered clearly
Common questions about identity assessments, privileged access, MFA, machine identities and Zero Trust.
START WITH THE ACCESS PATHS THAT MATTER
Find out where identity creates avoidable exposure
Tell us which identity platform, user population or privileged environment concerns you. We will help define the right assessment scope and build a practical improvement plan.
Independent assessment • Evidence-led priorities • Platform-neutral advice