AI & Agent Assurance
Identity & Privileged Access Assurance
Identity is where most serious breaches start and where agentic AI will stress-test you next. We assess your identity and privileged access controls against how attackers actually operate, and give you a plan that your identity team and your auditors will both accept.
The challenge
Identity is the control plane. Agents just multiplied the identities.
Credential abuse and privilege escalation recur in serious incident after serious incident, and the pattern rarely changes: an over-privileged account, a leaver who was never removed, a shared admin credential, a service account with a password set years ago.
Agentic AI adds a new class of identity to that picture. Agents authenticate, hold tokens and act on delegated authority — often outside the processes your identity team controls.
We bring experience of running identity and privileged access at Tier 1 scale, where the controls are tested by regulators and adversaries alike. The result is a clear-eyed view of what works, what does not and what to fix first.
What you get
Outcomes, not reports.
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An honest baseline
Where your joiner–mover–leaver, MFA, PAM and access certification controls are effective — and where they only look effective on paper.
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Privileged access under control
Standing privilege reduced, break-glass accounts governed, and privileged sessions attributable and monitored.
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Non-human identities in scope
Service accounts, workload identities and agents brought into the same governance as people, with owners and expiry.
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A programme that lands
A sequenced roadmap tied to risk reduction, with the business case to fund it.
How we work
Senior-led from scoping to sign-off.
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Assess
Interviews, configuration review and sample testing across identity lifecycle, authentication, PAM and certification.
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Attack-path review
We trace how an attacker — or a manipulated agent — would move from a foothold to your crown jewels using identity alone.
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Design
Target-state controls for human, workload and agent identities, proportionate to your risk and regulatory context.
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Plan and assure
A delivery roadmap and, if you want it, ongoing assurance as your teams implement it.
Deliverables
- Identity and PAM control assessment
- Identity attack-path analysis
- Target-state design for human, workload and agent identities
- Prioritised roadmap and business case
- Board-level summary
Who it’s for
- CISOs and heads of IAM facing audit findings or supervisory scrutiny on access control
- Organisations mid-way through a PAM or IGA programme that has lost momentum
- Firms extending identity governance to cover workloads, service accounts and AI agents
- Boards seeking independent assurance on the controls most often exploited in real incidents
Aligned to
- NIST SP 800-63-4
- ISO/IEC 27001 Annex A
- CIS Controls v8.1
- NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework
- DORA ICT risk management requirements
Relevant engagement · anonymised
Tier 1 financial market infrastructure
Ran a privileged access management uplift for a Tier 1 global exchange group alongside a redesign of its security operating model.
Questions
Frequently asked.
Are you tied to a particular PAM or IGA vendor?
No. We are independent of vendors and assess the controls and operating model, not the logo. Where tooling is the constraint, we say so and help you define requirements.
Can you help after the assessment?
Yes — through programme assurance, a retained advisory arrangement or as part of a vCISO engagement.
Often paired with
AI Agent Access Review
An independent review of every agent, service account and token acting on your behalf — who owns it, what it can reach, and whether it should.
Explore AI Agent Access ReviewSecurity Strategy & Architecture Review
Strategy, target operating model and architecture review — zero trust, cryptographic posture, cloud — built into a board-ready investment case.
Explore Security Strategy & Architecture ReviewRegulatory Resilience & Control Assurance
DORA, GovAssure/CAF, CBEST, TIBER-EU, FedRAMP and ISO 27001 — assurance against the frameworks your regulators actually test.
Explore Regulatory Resilience & Control AssuranceStart with a confidential conversation.
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