Security Control Uplift
Identity & Access Controls
Strengthen who can access what, when, and under what conditions.
Praxis Cyber helps organisations improve identity and access controls across Microsoft Entra, Microsoft 365 and business-critical systems, reducing over-access, weak MFA, risky admin accounts and unmanaged privilege.
MFA & CA
Admin privilege
Guest access
App consent
Evidence
Access decision layer
Identity signals, policy conditions and evidence paths in one operating model.
Who
User, group, role, admin status
What
App, system, data, permission
When
Risk, location, device, auth strength
Outcome
Allow, block, approve, review, log
MFA gaps
Reviewed
Admin roles
Prioritised
Guest users
Owned
Good access control is not only stronger authentication. It is a repeatable way to decide, approve, review and evidence access.
What this includes
Controls that reduce over-access without slowing the business
The service focuses on identity and access decision-making: who has access, how access is granted, how privilege is constrained, and how evidence is maintained.
MFA and Conditional Access review
Assess MFA coverage, authentication strength, legacy authentication, risky sign-ins and Conditional Access policy gaps.
Admin role and privileged access review
Identify excessive admin roles, unmanaged privilege, risky assignments and practical paths toward least privilege.
Access review process design
Design repeatable review cycles for users, privileged roles, guests, groups and business-critical systems.
Guest and external user review
Clean up external identities, ownership gaps, stale invitations and collaboration access that no longer has a business reason.
App registration and consent review
Review application permissions, consent risk, stale app registrations and governance for future app approval.
Service and break-glass account guidance
Review service accounts, emergency access accounts, exclusions and monitoring so exceptions are intentional and evidenced.
How it works
A practical path from access uncertainty to controlled privilege
The engagement is structured so security, IT and business owners can understand current access risk, agree practical controls and keep access review activity repeatable.
01
Assess
Review current identity, access, admin, external user and service-account controls.
02
Design
Define practical policies, approval paths, exceptions and ownership for access decisions.
03
Implement
Support control uplift, configuration changes, role clean-up and access review setup.
04
Evidence
Document decisions, settings, review cadence and management artefacts for leadership or audit.
Risk patterns
Find the access paths that quietly create exposure
Many access problems look ordinary until they are combined: weak MFA, stale guests, privileged roles, broad groups, app consent and exceptions that no one reviews.
Over-access
Users retain access after role changes
Risky admin accounts
Too many standing privileges or exclusions
Consent and app risk
Apps hold permissions no one owns
Unmanaged exceptions
Service and break-glass accounts lack monitoring
Deliverables
Outputs that help security, IT and leadership make access decisions
You receive clear artefacts that support immediate remediation, longer-term uplift and evidence needs for leadership, customers or auditors.
Identity risk summary
A concise view of access risks, privilege gaps, unmanaged exceptions and priority recommendations.
Conditional Access roadmap
A practical sequence for MFA, sign-in risk, device conditions, legacy auth and policy uplift.
Admin access cleanup plan
Recommended role cleanup, privileged access improvements and emergency account guidance.
Access review process
Review cadence, ownership model, evidence expectations and workflow recommendations.
Evidence pack for leadership/audit
Documented decisions, settings, screenshots, exports and review guidance that can be reused.
Operating guidance
Access controls only work when someone owns the rhythm
The work converts access control from a one-off clean-up into an operating rhythm: review owners, approval paths, exception handling and evidence that can survive staff turnover and audit pressure.
Owners
Who approves and reviews
Cadence
When access is checked
Evidence
What proves control operation
Exceptions
How risky access is handled
Where this fits
Identity and access is the decision layer beside Microsoft 365 and DLP
This service does not duplicate the Microsoft 365 Security Uplift or Purview DLP work. It goes deeper on access decisions, privilege, approval paths and review evidence across the systems that matter.
Identity & Access Controls
Who gets access, how privilege is approved, which exceptions exist, and how reviews produce evidence.
Microsoft 365 Security Uplift
Broader tenant security across Defender, Intune, email, collaboration, logging and Microsoft 365 control posture.
Data Protection & Purview DLP
Sensitive data classification, labels, DLP policies, retention and safer sharing controls.
FAQ
Questions security and IT leaders usually ask
Is this only for Microsoft Entra ID?
No. Entra ID and Microsoft 365 are common starting points, but the service can also consider access patterns for business-critical systems, service accounts, third-party apps and processes that sit around the identity platform.
Will you implement Conditional Access changes?
Praxis can support control uplift and configuration changes where appropriate. The work starts with assessment and design so changes are staged, evidenced and aligned to operational impact.
How is this different from a Microsoft 365 Security Uplift?
Microsoft 365 Security Uplift covers broader tenant controls. Identity & Access Controls goes deeper on access decisions, privilege, reviews, exceptions, app consent and evidence across Microsoft and non-Microsoft systems.
Do you review break-glass and service accounts?
Yes. Emergency access, service accounts and exclusions are reviewed for necessity, ownership, monitoring and evidence so exceptions are intentional rather than inherited risk.
What does leadership receive?
Typical outputs include an identity risk summary, Conditional Access roadmap, admin cleanup plan, access review process, service-account guidance and an evidence pack for leadership or audit.
Ready to reduce access risk?
Book a short call and we’ll help identify where identity, privilege, access reviews and exception handling can be strengthened first.
Book an access controls review