Identity & Privileged access
Cube Cyber operates identity security as a managed service, privileged access management, conditional access policy, MFA enforcement, and the ongoing hygiene of accounts, roles and permissions across your directory and cloud platforms. Most modern intrusions log in rather than break in, which makes identity the control plane that decides whether a phished password becomes a footnote or a crisis.
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Identity risk accumulates faster than any other kind:
The sharpest triggers are Essential Eight maturity targets for restricting administrative privileges and MFA, where evidence of operation is required, not intent; an incident or near miss involving credentials, which is most incidents; and cloud and SaaS growth, where every new platform multiplies the identity surface. This service also completes identity architecture work, designs from our architecture practice, or your own, need continuous operation to stay true, and identity is the least forgiving place to drift.
Core capabilities & deliverables
Privileged access management
Standing privilege systematically retired in favour of just-in-time, just-enough access, break-glass accounts governed properly, and privileged sessions controlled and logged, operated across your directory and PAM tooling, including our Delinea partnership.
Conditional access engineering
Access policy designed and operated to evaluate who, what, from where and in what state, legacy authentication closed, risky sign-ins challenged, and exceptions governed with expiry dates rather than good intentions.
MFA enforcement and coverage
Multi-factor authentication driven to genuine coverage, including the service accounts, legacy protocols and edge cases where bypasses live, aligned to Essential Eight maturity requirements and reported honestly.
Identity lifecycle hygiene
Joiner, mover and leaver processes that actually execute: timely deprovisioning, dormant account detection, and access recertification that results in removals, not just sign-offs.
Identity threat detection
Identity telemetry, impossible travel, token anomalies, privilege escalation, MFA fatigue patterns, monitored through our 24/7 SOC, because identity is where compromise shows first, and response is fastest when watcher and operator are the same firm.
Cloud and SaaS identity governance
Permissions and roles across cloud platforms and SaaS estates reviewed and right-sized continuously, over-permissioned cloud identities being the quiet twin of on-premises privilege sprawl.
Identity engagements run through the managed practice model:
Onboard
Identity estate discovery: accounts, privilege, policy state and authentication paths, including the honest map of MFA gaps and standing access.
Tune
The initial debt paid down: dormant accounts closed, legacy authentication retired, privilege reduced, conditional access completed, sequenced to avoid breaking the business.
Operate
Continuous lifecycle hygiene, policy governance, privileged access operation and identity threat monitoring.
Improve
Quarterly identity posture reviews: privilege trends, MFA coverage, policy exceptions and recertification outcomes, in evidence form.
The service aligns to ASD Essential Eight strategies for restricting administrative privileges and multi-factor authentication, ISM identity guidance and ISO 27001 access control objectives, and operates across Microsoft identity platforms and our Delinea partnership, integrated with our SOC for detection and our architecture practice for design.
ISO 27001Frequently asked questions
Because attackers follow the path of least resistance, and today that path authenticates. Phished credentials, token theft and MFA fatigue attacks bypass network controls entirely by arriving as a legitimate login. Network security still matters, but identity decides whether one compromised password is contained or catastrophic, which is why Essential Eight weights it so heavily.
Administrative rights granted for the task and the window, then automatically removed, replacing accounts that hold admin permanently. It shrinks the target: an attacker who compromises an account at 2am finds a user, not an administrator. Combined with session control and logging, it turns privilege from a standing risk into a governed event.
Coverage is the right question, and the honest answer is usually no. Legacy protocols that bypass MFA, service accounts that cannot use it, excluded VIPs and forgotten applications are where identity attacks actually succeed. We map real coverage, close the bypasses, and manage the exceptions that remain with compensating controls and expiry dates.
Not if it is sequenced properly, which is the discipline of the service. Changes run in report-only mode first, exceptions are handled before enforcement, and rollout follows an order that starts where risk is highest and friction lowest. The end state is usually less friction: fewer passwords, cleaner access, faster sign-in for the legitimate majority.
Yes, and most estates are exactly that: on-premises directory, Microsoft cloud identity, other cloud platforms and a SaaS sprawl. The service operates the identity control plane across them, with federation and synchronisation treated as the security boundaries they are, misconfigured trust between identity systems being a classic quiet path to compromise.
Tightly, by design. Identity architecture from our architecture practice becomes operational here; identity telemetry feeds our 24/7 SOC and MDR; testing validates the controls hold; and Essential Eight assessments consume the evidence this service generates. Identity is where Cube Cyber's design, operate and defend model earns its keep most visibly.
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