Identity security, engineered for outcomes.
Advisory defines your target state. Engineering delivers it. Managed services keep it running. Three connected disciplines, one specialist consultancy.
Start with clarity,
not a product recommendation.
CEO-led advisory engagements that begin with a rigorous understanding of your current state, business objectives, and constraints. We help you understand where you are, define where you need to be, and build a roadmap grounded in your environment.
Specialist Engineers
that know the platforms inside out.
From BeyondTrust PAM deployments to complex Entra ID migrations, our engineers are brought in when the standard implementation approach falls short. We bring in the right tools to test, gain observability, and deliver data-driven decisions.
Outbound Collaboration
Secure external collaboration through properly governed guest access, B2B direct connect, and cross-tenant access policies.
Your identity platform, managed by the team that understands it.
Ongoing operations, monitoring, and staff augmentation delivered by the same engineers who build and configure these platforms. Not a generic operations centre.
Managed IGA
Identity governance operations for organisations using Microsoft Entra ID Governance. Access review management, lifecycle workflow operations, role management, and governance reporting.
Proven delivery across major sectors
A sample of our engagements, delivering measurable outcomes for Australia's most demanding organisations.
IAM Transformation for a Federal Department
Partnered with a large Australian Government department to overhaul its identity infrastructure, delivering IAM strategy, architecture, PAM blueprint, Zero Trust PoC, and a cloud-native identity platform built on Entra ID and Apporetum.
Entra Security Review & Ongoing Partnership
Conducted independent security assessments across Entra ID and the full M365 suite for a global financial services group. Designed a Conditional Access framework, remediated AD findings, and evolved into an embedded blended team partnership.
Building a Modern IAM Practice for a Leading University
Multi-year partnership establishing a world-class IAM capability, from strategy and architecture through to cloud migration, PAM deployment, MFA rollout, and AD FS decommission across faculty and students.
Our preferred engagement approach
Every organisation is different, but this is the approach we find delivers the best outcomes. We adapt it to your needs, constraints, and pace.
Discovery & Assessment
We start by listening. Our consultants map your current identity environment, interview stakeholders, and identify gaps against frameworks like the Essential Eight, NIST, and your internal policies.
Discovery & Assessment
We start by listening. Our consultants map your current identity environment, interview stakeholders, and identify gaps against frameworks like the Essential Eight, NIST, and your internal policies.
Architecture & Design
We design a target-state architecture tailored to your organisation, covering IAM, PAM, Entra ID, Conditional Access, lifecycle workflows, and integration with your existing ecosystem.
Architecture & Design
We design a target-state architecture tailored to your organisation, covering IAM, PAM, Entra ID, Conditional Access, lifecycle workflows, and integration with your existing ecosystem.
Build & Implement
Our engineers build and configure your identity platform using our proven blueprints and SOPs. We adapt our existing IP to your environment. You don't pay us to reinvent the wheel.
Build & Implement
Our engineers build and configure your identity platform using our proven blueprints and SOPs. We adapt our existing IP to your environment. You don't pay us to reinvent the wheel.
Test & Validate
Every deployment undergoes rigorous validation: functional testing, security review, and user acceptance. We verify that policies enforce correctly and access flows work as designed.
Test & Validate
Every deployment undergoes rigorous validation: functional testing, security review, and user acceptance. We verify that policies enforce correctly and access flows work as designed.
Knowledge Transfer & Uplift
We train your team to own and evolve the platform independently. Documentation, runbooks, and hands-on workshops ensure you're never dependent on us to run your IAM environment.
Knowledge Transfer & Uplift
We train your team to own and evolve the platform independently. Documentation, runbooks, and hands-on workshops ensure you're never dependent on us to run your IAM environment.
Ongoing Support & Advisory
Post go-live, we offer flexible support retainers, from break-fix to strategic advisory. As your environment evolves, we help you adapt and continuously improve.
Ongoing Support & Advisory
Post go-live, we offer flexible support retainers, from break-fix to strategic advisory. As your environment evolves, we help you adapt and continuously improve.
Fixed-cost identity engagements. No surprises.
Not every identity challenge requires a six-month programme. Our Azure Marketplace offerings are scoped, priced, and ready to go. Purchase through your existing Microsoft billing and count it toward your MACC.
Microsoft Identity Observability
Single pane of glass insights into your end-to-end identity ecosystem. Correlate data across HR, AD, Entra ID, and disconnected systems in a rapid assessment.
MIM Migration to Entra ID
Structured migration path from Microsoft Identity Manager to cloud-native Entra ID lifecycle workflows, provisioning, and governance.
Conditional Access Framework Review
In-depth review of your Conditional Access policies to identify gaps, misconfigurations, and opportunities to strengthen your zero-trust posture.
Customer IAM Current State Review
End-to-end assessment of your customer identity environment, covering authentication flows, federation, and alignment to best practice.
Entra ID SSO Application Migration
Migrate legacy application authentication to Entra ID single sign-on, reducing credential sprawl and improving your security posture.
Building secure IAM & PAM by day. Testing their boundaries by night.
M42 Labs is where we go beyond the brief. Our security research team hunts for vulnerabilities in the enterprise identity platforms we work with daily and responsibly discloses them to make our clients and the broader community safer. Explore our CVEs, deep-dives, and original research.
Common questions about our services
Start with a conversation
Tell us about your identity challenge. We'll outline a specific approach.