Specialist Practice
Modern Authentication & Identity Strategy
Authentication has quietly become critical infrastructure for every organisation that depends on it. This practice exists to architect it with the resilience discipline that implies.
Practice Areas
Where the practice adds the most value
Passkey Adoption
Practical rollout strategies for passkeys across workforce and customer identity estates.
FIDO2
Standards-based phishing-resistant authentication architecture built on FIDO2 and WebAuthn.
Authentication Resilience
Designing authentication platforms that degrade gracefully instead of failing catastrophically.
Identity Survivability
Emergency and break-glass access architecture for when the primary identity provider is unavailable.
Zero Trust
Identity, device, network and data controls designed around continuous verification, not perimeter trust.
Identity Governance
Lifecycle, entitlement and access governance that scales with organisational complexity.
Persona-Based Security
Security architecture tuned to how different workforce personas actually work, not a single default policy.
Workforce Identity Modernisation
Migrating legacy directory and authentication estates to modern, cloud-native identity platforms.
Zero Trust Model
Six pillars of continuous verification
Verification
Identity
Every user and service verified continuously, not once at login.
Authentication Resilience Framework
Designed to survive failure, not just resist attack
Multi-factor authentication reduces the probability of compromise. Survivability determines what happens to the organisation when the identity provider itself becomes unavailable. Both matter — most programmes only invest in one.
Read: Authentication Survivability Matters More Than MFAPrimary Identity Provider
Modern, cloud-native identity platform providing day-to-day authentication and conditional access.
Secondary Controls
Independent authentication and access paths that remain available if the primary provider degrades.
Offline Access
Defined access patterns for critical systems when connectivity to central identity is unavailable.
Emergency Access
Governed break-glass accounts and procedures for last-resort recovery, tightly audited and time-boxed.
Resilience Governance
Ongoing testing, ownership and assurance so resilience controls work when they are actually needed.
Related Insights
Further reading on identity and authentication
The Future Of Passwordless Authentication
Passwordless is no longer an emerging trend — it is the default architecture decision. The organisations still treating it as optional are accumulating risk, not caution.
ReadAuthentication Survivability Matters More Than MFA
Multi-factor authentication tells you how hard it is to compromise an identity. Survivability tells you what happens to the organisation when the identity provider itself goes down.
ReadThe Hidden Failure Modes Of Zero Trust
Zero Trust has become a procurement label almost as often as it has become an architecture. The gap between the two is where the real risk sits.
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