Shared responsibility, actually owned
Cloud providers secure the platform; you secure identity. We map the boundary explicitly across IaaS, PaaS and SaaS so nothing falls through the gap between your team and the vendor.
Solutions
Identity & Access Management
Zero-trust identity, conditional access and privileged access architecture.
Zero-trust identity, not zero-trust marketing.
Identity is the new perimeter, and getting it wrong is how most breaches start. As workloads moved to the cloud the shared-responsibility model shifted with them - the provider secures the platform, you secure who gets in and what they can do. Get the identity plane right and a cloud migration becomes a security upgrade; get it wrong and you have just expanded your attack surface by several orders of magnitude. We design and operate identity platforms (Entra ID, Okta, Ping), set conditional access policies against your actual threat model, implement privileged access management for the accounts that hold the keys, and wire in identity threat detection so anomalous sign-ins are caught the moment they happen.
Deep dive into the capabilitiesWhy identity is the first control to get right.
The same named team stays with you from kick-off through delivery. Engagements are shaped to your risk profile, not our template library.
Zero-trust as architecture, not a badge
Zero-trust is not a product you buy. We translate the principle into conditional access, device posture, segmentation and session controls wired into the IDP you already run.
Reuse what you already have
Entra ID, Okta, Ping, CyberArk, BeyondTrust - we build on the stack you own instead of green-fielding a parallel identity fabric and calling it a transformation.
ML-assisted identity threat detection
Behavioural baselines surface anomalous sign-ins, token replay and impossible-travel patterns that static conditional access rules miss. Findings feed back to the Vectra SOC.
How we land zero-trust identity.
Every engagement follows the same six-step CREST-aligned methodology. You get visibility into every phase and an audit trail of every action taken by the test team.
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01
Map
Inventory every identity source, IDP, directory and privileged pocket. Draw the shared-responsibility boundary across your IaaS, PaaS and SaaS footprint.
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Design
Conditional access, PAM and ITDR architecture tuned to your actual threat model and user journeys - not a reference diagram copied from a vendor whitepaper.
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Deploy
Phased rollout with pilot cohorts, telemetry on every policy change, and break-glass plus audit so a bad rule never becomes an outage.
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Operate
Run as a managed service or handed over to your team with runbooks. Ongoing access reviews, policy drift detection and ITDR feeding the Vectra SOC.
What the engagement actually covers.
No tiered upsells, no "platinum" package. What you see is what you get - one contract, one team, one number to call.
IDP design & migration
Entra ID, Okta or Ping stood up or consolidated - including federation, directory sync and application onboarding off legacy AD FS or on-premise LDAP.
Conditional access engineering
Policy design against your threat model, graduated rollout with telemetry, and break-glass plus monitoring so a bad rule never locks the business out.
Privileged access management
CyberArk, BeyondTrust or Delinea - vaulting, session brokering, JIT elevation and discovery of the service accounts nobody remembered owning.
Identity governance
Joiner-mover-leaver automation, periodic access reviews, SoD enforcement and entitlement management via SailPoint, Saviynt or native IGA.
Identity threat detection (ITDR)
Defender for Identity, Okta ITP or Crowdstrike Falcon Identity tied back to your SOC - anomalous sign-ins, token theft and consent phishing surfaced in real time.
Workload & non-human identity
Managed identities, workload federation, secrets management and OAuth app governance for the service-to-service traffic your IDP usually forgets.
What changes after the rollout.
Every engagement runs through a unified portal. Scope, schedule, consume findings and measure the program across years of history - without a single PDF attachment hitting your inbox.
Phishing-resistant MFA
FIDO2, passkeys and platform authenticators rolled out against a real adoption plan - not an opt-in toggle that half the workforce ignores.
Conditional access that bites
Risk-based policies tied to device posture, location, session risk and sensitivity of the resource. No blanket "allow trusted network" escape hatches.
Privileged access, broker-gated
Standing admin rights removed. Just-in-time elevation, session recording and credential vaulting for the accounts attackers actually want.
Identity threat detection
ITDR hooked into your SIEM and the Vectra SOC - token theft, consent phishing, dormant account revival caught in minutes, not months.
Non-human identity in scope
Service principals, workload identities, OAuth apps and API keys governed with the same rigour as user accounts. The supply-chain vector nobody rotates.
Audit-ready on day one
Access reviews, joiner-mover-leaver workflows and evidence packs aligned to Essential Eight Maturity Level 2, ISM, APRA CPS 234 and SOCI.
The metrics that shift after cutover.
Measurable, reportable, auditable - every outcome tracks to a control in your compliance framework.
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Phishing-resistant MFA covering 100% of workforce identities and all privileged access paths
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Standing admin rights removed - privileged access brokered with session recording and JIT elevation only
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Conditional access policies graded by device posture, session risk and data sensitivity, with full telemetry on every decision
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Identity threat detection wired into the SOC so token theft and anomalous sign-ins are contained in minutes, not months
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Joiner-mover-leaver automation closing the access-creep gap that most audits find first
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Evidence packs aligned to Essential Eight Maturity Level 2, ISM, APRA CPS 234 and SOCI Act Part 2A
Identity questions we hear most weeks.
Can't find the answer here? The team responds to scoping queries within one business day - usually faster.
Ask the team directlyDo you replace our IDP or build on it?
Build on it, almost always. If you run Entra ID, Okta or Ping we extend what you have. We only recommend a platform change when the current stack genuinely cannot meet the target architecture - and even then we plan the migration carefully rather than forklift.
How does this differ from what our cloud vendor gives us?
Cloud providers secure the identity platform; you are still responsible for the policies, the joiner-mover-leaver workflow, the privileged account hygiene and the detection content. That is the shared-responsibility line, and it is where most IAM programs leak.
Can you cover non-human identities too?
Yes - and it is usually the bigger gap. Service principals, workload identities, OAuth app consents and long-lived API keys all fall in scope. We discover them, govern them and rotate what should have been rotated years ago.
How long does a typical rollout take?
Eight to sixteen weeks for a phased conditional access and PAM rollout across a mid-size estate, with pilot cohorts in the first four. Full IGA builds run longer. Emergency privileged-access lockdowns can stand up in 10 days.
Do you run this as a managed service?
Both modes available. Turnkey handover with documentation and training, or run-and-operate where Vectra owns the identity plane and your team consumes it as a service. ITDR feeds the Vectra SOC in either mode.
Will conditional access break the business?
Not if you roll it out properly. We pilot every policy against a telemetry-only mode first, graduate it to warn, then enforce. Break-glass accounts, monitored separately, are always in place before enforcement starts.
Security, engineered around you.
Talk to an engineer - not a call centre. Most Vectra conversations start with a 30-minute technical briefing and end with a written plan.