Tenant and identity design
Clarify identity sources, tenant boundaries, administrative models, hybrid dependencies and target-state principles.
Microsoft Entra consulting
Turn Microsoft Entra into a
coherent identity control plane.
MAITS helps organisations design, strengthen and govern Microsoft Entra across workforce, privileged, customer and application identities.
More than tenant configuration
Effective Entra architecture connects identity sources, authentication, access policy, privilege, lifecycle, applications and operational evidence.
Identity architecture
Treat Entra as part of the wider enterprise system.
Directories, applications and cloud controls create one chain of trust. A weakness at any hand-off can undermine the whole design.
01Identity
→02Authentication
→03Access
→04Governance
→05Credentials
→06Trust
Capability
Design the platform around risk and operating reality.
Passkeys and authentication methods
Plan phishing-resistant methods, registration, bootstrap, recovery and policy without stranding users or administrators.
Conditional Access
Build a controlled policy set using identity, device, application, location and risk signals, with report-only validation and emergency access.
Identity Governance and PIM
Connect lifecycle workflows, entitlements, reviews and time-bound privileged access to accountable ownership.
External ID and CIAM
Design customer and partner journeys, external tenants, application integration and a viable transition from Azure AD B2C.
Operational visibility
Define monitoring, break-glass controls, change discipline, policy coverage and evidence for ongoing assurance.
Access architecture
Signals are useful only when policy expresses a clear decision.
Identity, device, authentication, risk, role and context combine differently for workforce, external, privileged and workload access.
Platform engineering
The practical Entra capability behind the control model.
Tenant & directory design
Tenant boundaries, domains, administrative units, groups, roles, custom security attributes and hybrid source authority.
Methods & identity protection
Passkeys, FIDO2, Windows Hello for Business, Temporary Access Pass, authentication strengths, sign-in and user risk.
Conditional Access
Personas, applications, devices, networks, risk, session controls, exclusions, report-only deployment and troubleshooting.
PIM & high-value access
Eligible assignments, activation, approval, justification, time limits, reviews and emergency access.
Entitlements & lifecycle
Access packages, reviews, lifecycle workflows, ownership, delegated administration and external-user removal.
Enterprise & custom apps
App registrations, enterprise applications, federation, claims, consent, Graph integration and provisioning.
B2B & customer identity
Cross-tenant access, collaboration, federation, External ID, customer journeys and B2C migration.
Non-human identity
Managed identities, service principals, workload federation, credential reduction, ownership and privilege.
Access models
Use the model that matches the decision.
RBAC assigns access through defined roles. Attribute-informed or policy-based access uses supported identity, resource and context attributes. Application roles, groups and claims carry different kinds of entitlement into relying systems.
Microsoft Entra does not provide arbitrary ABAC for every application. MAITS keeps platform capability separate from the application’s own authorisation model, then designs a maintainable boundary between them.
RBACSupported ABAC patternsGroupsApplication rolesClaimsEntitlements
Common problems
Configuration has accumulated. Control has not.
Organisations often have overlapping Conditional Access policies, inconsistent authentication methods, permanent privileged assignments, unmanaged guests and application integrations with unclear ownership.
MAITS establishes what should be true, compares that with the current environment, and sequences improvements so that risk reduction does not create avoidable disruption.
Policy sprawlLegacy authenticationPrivilege exposureGuest lifecycleApp ownershipAudit gaps
Engagement path
Assess. Design. Implement. Assure.
Assess
Understand identity sources, policy, privilege, applications, licensing constraints and current risk.
Design
Define target architecture, control intent, exceptions, ownership and phased outcomes.
Implement
Guide configuration, migration and application change with test and rollback plans.
Assure
Validate control coverage, evidence, monitoring and operational handover.
Related capability
Entra works best when its dependencies are designed with it.
Start a conversation
Make Entra easier to govern — and harder to misuse.
Start with a focused architecture discussion or establish an independent view of the current control environment.