Identity & Access Risk Management for Complex Environments

Cloudskope helps organizations assess how access is granted, governed, authenticated, and extended across Microsoft 365, Azure, third-party applications, privileged accounts, and connected systems — so leadership can reduce exposure before identity risk turns into business impact.

Independent By Design

Microsoft 365 + Azure Included

24/7 Overwatch Available

Initial Findings

<10 Days

Audit Cycle

2-4 Weeks

Monitoring and Response

What an Identity Risk Audit Is Built to Uncover

A serious identity assessment should do more than review settings. It should show where access has expanded beyond intent, where authentication is weaker than expected, and where one compromised account could create broader business risk across Microsoft 365, Azure, email, third-party access, and connected systems.

Excessive Privileged Access

Overprivileged accounts raise the blast radius of a single compromise.

We identify where global admins, elevated roles, standing privilege, and service accounts create more exposure than the business realizes.

MFA and Authentication Gaps

Weak authentication still enables avoidable compromise.

We assess whether MFA, authentication flows, conditional access, and sign-in controls are enforced the way leadership expects across Microsoft 365, Azure, and connected apps.

Identity Drift and Stale Accounts

Unused access becomes silent exposure over time.

We review dormant accounts, outdated role assignments, stale entitlements, and access that has expanded over time without enough oversight.

Microsoft 365 and Azure Identity Exposure

97% of identity attacks targeted Microsoft 365 and Azure in 2025

We test how Microsoft 365, Azure, and Entra identity paths create exploitable exposure across users, admins, apps, and connected services.

Third-Party and OAuth Access Risk

Trusted apps can quietly expand your attack surface.

We review OAuth grants, consent flows, federated trust, vendor access, and third-party application permissions that may expose data or expand privilege without enough oversight.

Credential Exposure and Executive Targeting

Leaked credentials and public data raise real risk for key executives.

We assess credential exposure, executive OSINT, dark web signals, and public identity data that can increase the likelihood of compromise, impersonation, or targeted access abuse.

What This Engagement Covers

CloudSkope combines identity control review with technical validation so clients can distinguish between assumed protection and actual exposure across Microsoft 365, Azure, privileged access, authentication, email, and third-party trust.

Identity Posture Review

A structured baseline of your environment, attack surface, and inherited trust relationships.

What We Assess: User lifecycle controls, role design, privilege allocation, dormant accounts, admin sprawl, group membership, stale accounts, and access governance.

Why It Matters: Identity is one of the most important control planes in the enterprise. Weak governance often creates the fastest path to material exposure.

Typical Outputs:

Identity Posture Baseline
Admin and Privilege Summary
Dormant and Risky Account Review
Governance Gap Observations

Expected Deliverable: Identity Risk Baseline

MFA & Conditional Access Validation

Independent validation of authentication controls and access policies.

What We Assess: MFA enforcement, SSO pathways, conditional access logic, authentication exceptions, device trust, sign-in behavior, and session control weaknesses.

Why It Matters: Policies that look complete on paper often break down through exceptions, weak enforcement, or incomplete coverage.

Typical Outputs:

MFA Control Review
Conditional Access Findings
Authentication Gap Summary
Policy Alignment Observations

Expected Deliverable: Authentication Control Assessment

Privileged Access & Admin Review

A focused analysis of the accounts and roles with the most power in the environment.

What We Assess: A focused review of how access is granted, escalated, governed, and revoked across the environment.

Why It Matters: One overprivileged or poorly governed account can turn a manageable issue into broad compromise.

Typical Outputs:

Privileged Access Inventory
Admin-Risk Summary
Role Design Findings
High-risk Access Priorities

Expected Deliverable: Privileged Access Review

M365, Azure, Entra Attack-Path Review

Assessment of identity-related exposure across Microsoft cloud environments and connected trust paths.

What We Assess: Microsoft 365 security posture, Azure identity exposure, Entra configurations, app permissions, mailbox access, sign-in behavior, and identity-linked attack paths.

Why It Matters: Cloud identity risk often builds quietly across users, apps, and administrative controls until one weak path is abused.

Typical Outputs:

Cloud Identity Findings
Microsoft Exposure Observations
Attack-Path Notes
Priority Hardening Actions

Expected Deliverable: Microsoft Identity Exposure Review

Third-Party Access, Email Security & Domain Trust

Review of identity-adjacent controls that expand or weaken trust across the environment.

What We Assess: OAuth grants, third-party app access, vendor accounts, inbox rules, forwarding behavior, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and domain-related trust weaknesses.

Why It Matters: Identity compromise often happens through weak trust extensions, not just direct password theft.

Typical Outputs:

Third-party Access Summary
Email and Domain Trust Findings
OAuth and Consent Review
Domain Security Observations

Expected Deliverable: Trust Extension Risk Summary

OSINT, Credential Exposure & Remediation Planning

Assessment of external identity-related exposure plus a practical plan for corrective action.

What We Assess: Credential exposure, executive and company OSINT, dark web signals, public data risk, remediation feasibility, ownership, and next-step prioritization.

Why It Matters: An identity assessment only creates value when external exposure is understood and findings are translated into action.

Typical Outputs:

Remediation Roadmap
Ownership Matrix
Transition Plan
Executive Action Summary
Governance Recommendations

Expected Deliverable: Prioritized Remediation and Protection Plan

Beyond the Assessment

A quality identity assessment should do more than point out control gaps.

It should improve how leadership understands access risk, how teams prioritize remediation, and how the business stays protected over time.

Clearer Access Risk

Leadership gains a clearer view of where identity, privilege, and authentication create real exposure.

Better Remediation Decisions

Teams know which identity gaps to fix first and where changes will materially reduce exposure.

Stronger Governance

Access reviews, privilege controls, and policy decisions become easier to defend with leadership, auditors, and regulators.

Protection Sustained

Where needed, CloudSkope stays engaged through remediation support, governance guidance, and 24/7 Overwatch.

What Happens Next

Every engagement is scoped to your environment, priorities, and the level of support you need after findings are delivered.

A Simple Path From Assessment to Protection

Discover

We define scope, align priorities, and structure the engagement.

Audit

We complete the assessment and identify what requires action.

Remediate

We prioritize findings and help your team address the crucial gaps.

Protect

Where needed, Cloudskope stays engaged through GRC and SOC.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

What does an identity and access risk assessment include?
Do you assess Microsoft 365, Azure, and Entra identity risk?
Do you review MFA, SSO, conditional access, and privileged access?
Do you assess email security, DNS, DKIM, and DMARC on this page too?
Can you assess dark web credential exposure and executive targeting?
Will we just receive a report at the end?
Can you help us remediate the findings after the assessment?
Do you provide ongoing monitoring or 24/7 support after the assessment?