Identity is the perimeter.
In a Microsoft estate most of the risk sits in identity and configuration rather than the endpoint. We assess Entra, Microsoft 365 and the permissions that accumulate around them — then operate the routine that keeps them clean.
The estate everyone has, and few review.
Microsoft tenancies grow by accretion: a guest account for a project that ended, a consent grant nobody remembers approving, a conditional-access policy with an exclusion that was meant to be temporary. None of it looks like an attack until it is one.
Role assignments, privileged paths and standing access that outlived its reason — mapped as configured, not as documented.
Policies reviewed for the exclusions and gaps that quietly undo them, including the accounts deliberately left outside.
Sharing defaults, guest access, app consent and mail-flow rules — the settings that turn one compromised account into a breach.
Accounts that outlive employees and permissions that only ever accumulate, because nothing in the joiner-mover-leaver process removes them.
An identity model decays without a routine.
Identity & Access Governance sets the model — the roles, the review cadence, the joiner-mover-leaver process. Managed Identity then runs it: lifecycle execution, scheduled access reviews, privileged account monitoring, and MFA coverage that holds instead of quietly drifting. The governance model designed in Advisory is still true a year later because somebody is operating it.
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