Identity governance

Make every access decision
explainable and reversible.

MAITS connects lifecycle events, roles, entitlements, approvals, reviews and privileged access into an operating governance model.

Governance is a business control

The platform can automate a decision. It cannot decide who should own access, what risk is acceptable or which evidence matters.

Joiner · mover · reviewer · leaver

Access must change when the relationship changes.

Governed access lifecycleA relationship establishes a role and eligibility, followed by birthright or requested access, approval, provisioning, review, change and removal.01RelationshipJoin · move02RoleNeed · owner03EligibilityPolicy · SoD04Requestor birthrightApproval05AccessProvision · use06ReviewReconfirm · expire07RemoveChange · leaveOWNERSHIP · EVIDENCE · EXCEPTIONS · ASSURANCE
Governance connects the relationship and entitlement decision to provisioning, review and timely removal.

Control model

Move from access accumulation to governed entitlement.

LIFECYCLE

Identity lifecycle workflows

Trigger consistent onboarding, changes and offboarding from authoritative business events.

ENTITLEMENT

Access packages

Group resources, policy, approval and expiry into requestable access that has a clear owner.

EVIDENCE

Access reviews

Reconfirm access using accountable reviewers, useful context and actions that close the loop.

DESIGN

Roles and policy

Use role-based or attribute-informed approaches where they simplify decisions without hiding risk.

CONFLICT

Segregation of duties

Identify incompatible access and build preventative or detective controls around meaningful risk.

PRIVILEGE

Privileged Identity Management

Replace standing privilege with time-bound, approved and monitored activation where appropriate.

Operating governance

Ownership is part of the architecture.

Good governance distinguishes the identity source, entitlement owner, approver, reviewer, platform operator and assurance function. It also defines what happens when those roles disagree or do not act.

MAITS helps establish decision rights, control objectives, escalation, evidence and measures that teams can sustain after implementation.

AccountabilityLeast privilegeTime-bound accessReview evidenceException handlingExternal identities

Entitlement architecture

Separate who someone is from why access should exist.

BIRTHRIGHT

Baseline access

Grant only the access that reliably follows a defined relationship, population or role.

REQUESTABLE

Access packages

Combine resources, eligibility, approval, expiry and ownership into a reusable entitlement policy.

ATTRIBUTE-INFORMED

RBAC and ABAC patterns

Use roles and supported attributes where they simplify decisions, without claiming universal platform authorisation.

EXCEPTIONS

Conflict and risk

Address segregation of duties, privileged access, policy exceptions and compensating controls explicitly.

External identity lifecycle

Strong onboarding is not enough.

Guests, contractors, suppliers and partners often enter through a well-defined invitation but remain after the sponsor, project or business relationship has ended.

MAITS connects sponsorship, cross-tenant access, federation, access packages, expiry, reviews and removal so external identity has an accountable end as well as a beginning.

Outcomes

A practical route to stronger access control.

01

See

Establish who has access, why, through which path and under whose ownership.

02

Decide

Define entitlement, role, approval, expiry and conflict policy around business risk.

03

Automate

Connect reliable events to provisioning, workflows, review and removal.

04

Prove

Retain useful evidence and monitor that control outcomes remain effective.

Start a conversation

Stop access from outliving its purpose.

We can help shape a governance roadmap, target operating model or Microsoft Entra Identity Governance implementation.