Identity & Access · Dubai & UAE
Secure access to your applications and data with robust identity and access management. Control who can access what, enforce strong authentication, and maintain compliance with regulatory requirements.
Who it’s for
Most breaches we investigate in the UAE start with a valid username and password, not a firewall hole. Identity is now the perimeter, and it is usually the least governed part of the estate.
What’s included
Six controls that together stop credential theft, remove standing privilege and give you an audit trail for every sign-in — delivered as a project or as a managed identity service.
Add extra layers of security to verify user identity and prevent unauthorised access, even when a password has already been phished or leaked.
Centralise authentication while maintaining strong security and user convenience — one identity for Microsoft 365, SaaS and on-premises applications.
Grant access based on who the user is, what device they are on, where they are and how risky the sign-in looks — the policy layer behind every other control.
Control who has access to what resources and maintain least-privilege principles for domain admins, global admins, database and firewall accounts.
Manage user lifecycles and ensure compliance with access policies — joiners get the right access on day one, movers lose what they no longer need, leavers are disabled the same day.
Reduce the number of passwords in the business and, for most users, remove them entirely with strong device-bound credentials.
How it works
A staged programme that starts with the highest-risk accounts and never locks out the business. A 100-user MFA and Conditional Access rollout typically completes in two to three weeks.
Inventory of every identity, admin role, app registration and sign-in method across Entra ID and Active Directory. You receive a risk-ranked findings report scored against Microsoft Secure Score and CIS benchmarks.
Conditional Access policy set, MFA methods, admin tiering model, group and licence structure, and the joiner-mover-leaver workflow agreed with HR and IT.
Pilot group first, then department by department with report-only policies before enforcement. Users get a short guide and a help desk line for the switch-over week.
Ongoing access reviews, risky sign-in triage, new app integrations and policy changes handled under a managed identity agreement with monthly reporting.
Outcomes
What changes once identity is enforced, governed and watched.
Engagement models
Start with a review of what you have, run a fixed-scope rollout, or let us operate identity for you month to month.
Option
Know where every account and admin role stands
Most popular
Fixed-scope hardening of your Microsoft tenant
Option
Identity operated and governed for you
Licensing (Microsoft Entra ID P1/P2, Entra ID Governance, One Identity) is quoted separately in AED. Most SMBs already hold the required licences through Microsoft 365 Business Premium or E3/E5.
Technologies
We build on the identity platform you already licence and add specialist tooling only where it is needed.
Microsoft Entra ID P1/P2, Entra ID Protection, Privileged Identity Management, Entra ID Governance, Windows Hello for Business · One Identity Manager and Safeguard · Cisco Duo · FortiAuthenticator and FortiToken · YubiKey FIDO2 keys
FAQ
Yes. Windows Hello for Business, FIDO2 security keys and Microsoft Authenticator passkeys all work with Entra ID and are supported on devices managed through Intune. We usually start with IT and finance, retire passwords for those groups once sign-in success rates are stable, then extend to the rest of the organisation.
If more than one person holds domain, tenant or firewall admin rights, yes. At small scale that means Entra ID Privileged Identity Management with just-in-time activation and MFA on every admin role; larger estates add a vault-based PAM platform such as One Identity Safeguard for shared and service accounts.
Usually a great deal. MFA on the mailbox alone leaves VPN, Wi-Fi, RDP and admin portals open, and SMS or voice codes are easily intercepted. We check coverage across every entry point, move admins to phishing-resistant methods, block legacy protocols that bypass MFA entirely and add Conditional Access so that MFA is a policy rather than a per-user setting.
Not for the fundamentals. Conditional Access, MFA and group-based licensing are in Entra ID P1, which is included in Microsoft 365 Business Premium and E3. P2 adds Identity Protection risk policies, Privileged Identity Management and access reviews, and we recommend it for admin accounts and regulated firms. We will tell you exactly which licences you need before quoting.
Most can be covered. Modern apps integrate with SAML or OpenID Connect; internal web apps can be published through Entra Application Proxy; portals that only accept a password can use password-based SSO. Applications that cannot be integrated are documented in the assessment with a recommended path.
We connect provisioning to your HR system or a controlled request form so that a leaver record disables the account, revokes sessions, removes group membership and reclaims the licence automatically. Under Managed Identity we also run periodic reviews so that nothing is missed when the process is bypassed.
Separating everyday accounts from admin accounts, granting admin roles just-in-time through Privileged Identity Management, and vaulting shared credentials for firewalls, servers and databases in One Identity Safeguard with session recording. It is the control auditors and cyber-insurers now ask about first.
Yes. Both frameworks require access to personal and sensitive data to be limited, authenticated and logged. Our designs map MFA, least privilege, access reviews and sign-in logging to the relevant PDPL, NESA / UAE IA and ISO 27001 controls, and we supply the evidence for audits.
Identity & Access · UAE
Start with an identity security assessment — we will show you which accounts, roles and sign-in methods put the business at risk and what to fix first.
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