Identity & Access Management

Identity and access management is the foundation of IT security. Who can log in, what they can access, and how permissions are structured: these decisions affect every system in your infrastructure. When that foundation depends on a proprietary provider like Microsoft Active Directory or Okta, you are building your security model on someone else’s platform and their pricing terms.

Open-source alternatives like OpenLDAP and Kerberos provide the same core capabilities: centralised directory services, single sign-on, and fine-grained access control. These are proven technologies with decades of deployment history across industries and scales. We help you plan and design an identity architecture that fits your company’s structure, with user accounts, groups, roles, and permissions mapped to your actual organisational needs.

Planning the structure is where most of the value lies. A poorly designed directory becomes a maintenance headache that compounds over time. We help you think through group hierarchies, naming conventions, permission inheritance, and how to handle common scenarios like department transfers, contractor access, and service accounts. Getting this right from the start means fewer exceptions and less manual intervention as your company grows.

We also advise on integration: how your identity infrastructure connects to Linux workstations, web applications, VPN access, file shares, and other services. The goal is a single source of truth for identity, one place where accounts are created, modified, and deactivated, with changes propagating consistently across all connected systems. No proprietary middleware required.