Secure access to everything your organisation depends on
We design, implement and improve identity environments built around Microsoft Entra - helping you protect users, applications, workloads and privileged access without creating unnecessary friction.
Identity architecture • Zero Trust access • Identity governance • Workload identity
Identity has become your security control plane
Your organisation no longer operates behind a single network perimeter. People, partners, applications and automated workloads need access to resources across cloud, SaaS and hybrid environments.
As that environment grows, identity controls can become fragmented. Permissions accumulate, policies overlap and accounts remain active long after they are needed.
Privileged access
Administrative rights are broader, more permanent or less visible than they should be.
Inconsistent controls
MFA and Conditional Access exist, but are not applied consistently across users, applications and risk scenarios.
Identity lifecycle gaps
Access is not always granted, changed or removed when people join, move through or leave the organisation.
AI agents & workload identities
Service principals, managed identities, automation accounts and AI agents can hold powerful permissions without clear ownership or review.
The result is greater security exposure, operational friction and difficulty demonstrating that access remains appropriate.
Identity needs to be deliberately engineered and continuously governed - not allowed to accumulate.
OUR IDENTITY CAPABILITIES
Build identity controls that work across your organisation
We help you establish the architecture, controls and governance needed to manage access securely - from initial strategy and design through to implementation and ongoing improvement.
Identity architecture and modernisation
Create a secure, scalable identity foundation aligned with your cloud and business strategy.
Microsoft Entra (previously Azure Active Directory) tenant and identity architecture
Role-based access control design
Legacy identity modernisation
Hybrid identity alignment
Authentication and federation strategy
Cross-organisational solutions for M&A, health and social care
Zero Trust and privileged access
Apply the right level of control to every access request while reducing permanent administrative privilege.
Conditional Access design and rationalisation
Privileged Identity Management
Risk-based access controls
Phishing-resistant authentication
Least-privilege and tiered administration
Identity governance and automation
Make access easier to manage, review and evidence throughout its lifecycle.
Joiner, mover and leaver processes
Entitlement management
Governance reporting and audit readiness
Access reviews and recertification
Approval and provisioning workflows
Application, workload and AI identity
Protect the non-human identities connecting applications, platforms and automated services.
Service principal and managed identity governance
Application registration and consent controls
Ownership, monitoring and lifecycle controls
AI agent and access controls
Credential, certificate and secret management
Need help identifying the right starting point?
IDENTITY BEYOND THE DIRECTORY
Identity must extend wherever your technology does
Identity can’t be treated as a standalone Microsoft 365 configuration exercise. It determines how people, applications and automated services interact with the platforms that run your organisation.
We integrate identity into the wider architecture so access remains secure as your cloud estate evolves.
Every connected environment.
One identity strategy.
Azure and cloud
Build identity, privileged access, and role design into landing zones and cloud operating models.
PLATFORMS
Data and AI
Control how people, applications, and AI agents access data, models, tools and services.
INTELLIGENCE
Microsoft Entra
Architecture • Access • Governance
IDENTITY BACKBONE
Applications
Connect SaaS, enterprise, and custom applications with appropriate federation, provisioning and access controls.
INTEGRATION
DevOps
Govern service connections, deployment identities, and secrets used by engineering teams and pipelines.
AUTOMATION
THE OUTCOME
Identity enables cloud adoption and innovation, without becoming the control gap that holds you back.
Find out where your identity risk sits
A PRACTICAL PLACE TO START
Our Identity & Access Health Check provides a structured assessment of the controls protecting your Microsoft Entra environment, Azure resources and connected applications.
We review identity structure and governance, privileged access, Conditional Access and MFA, application and AI identities, user lifecycle processes, access reviews, monitoring and reporting.
YOU’LL RECEIVE
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A clear identity-risk heatmap
Practical quick wins for the next 30-60 days
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A prioritised remediation plan
A strategic roadmap for longer-term improvement
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You’ll leave with a clear view of the gaps that matter, what to address first and how to strengthen your identity controls without adding unnecessary complexity.
WHY SHAPING CLOUD
Identity expertise grounded in the wider cloud environment
Identity decisions affect security, infrastructure, applications, data and day-to-day operations. Our specialists consider that wider environment, not just the settings inside an identity platform.
That means recommendations designed to work in the real architecture, with the real people, processes and constraints around it.
CONNECTED EXPERTISE
Azure
Applications
Identity
Data & AI
Operations
Identity is treated as part of the operating environment - not a an isolated configuration excercise.
Microsoft cloud expertise
We bring identity together with the Azure, security, data and application services it needs to protect.
Design through to delivery
Our recommendations are informed by implementation experience, helping turn target architectures and roadmaps into working controls.
Practical security
We balance stronger protection with usability and operational reality, focusing effort on the risks and controls that matter.
Capability that lasts
We design governance, processes and operating models your teams can maintain as the organisation continues to change.
PROOF, NOT PROMISES
CLIENT SUCCESS
Stronger identity control for a national NHS organisation
A focused review became a practical programme of identity improvement - strengthening privileged access and control across a complex hybrid environment.
NATIONAL NHS ORGANISATION
IDENTITY & ACCESS MANAGEMENT
From identity risk to stronger privileged access
Ageing controls and limited visibility
The organisation needed to address risks associated with ageing on-premises identity infrastructure, limited visibility across its hybrid estate and the absence of a modern privileged access approach.
THE CHALLENGE
Assessment followed by implementation
Shaping Cloud assessed Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft 365, identified priority risks, tested privileged-access controls and introduced RBAC, MFA and Conditional Access.
OUR APPROACH
Control, clarity and a route forward
The engagement strengthened control over privileged activity, improved visibility of identity exposure and established practical recommendations for wider security improvement.
THE OUTCOME
Client name withheld
WHAT CHANGED
Identity vulnerabilities and priority risks made visible
Privileged access strengthened through modern controls
Clear recommendations established for wider remediation
Make identity a foundation for secure growth
Whether you need to understand your current exposure, modernise an existing environment or establish stronger governance, we can help you define and deliver the right next step.