Identity security
Controls that protect accounts and reduce the value of a stolen password.
- Multi-factor authentication
- Conditional Access policies
- Administrative role review
- Sign-in and password controls
- Emergency access planning
Security & governance
Security work across identity, devices, networks, cloud services, administrative access, response, policy, and evidence.
What this capability covers.
The work includes the individual systems below and the dependencies connecting them to the wider environment.
Endpoint security
Device requirements that are configured, measured, and tied to access where appropriate.
- BitLocker encryption
- Endpoint protection configuration
- Intune compliance policies
- Local administrator cleanup
- Update and security baselines
Environment controls
Network and cloud settings that reduce unnecessary exposure and support understandable boundaries.
- Firewall and remote-access review
- Network segmentation
- External sharing controls
- Guest and vendor access
- Backup and recovery review
Governance and response
The policies, records, and response procedures needed to explain how security is operated.
- Security posture assessments
- Cyber-insurance requirements
- Client security questionnaires
- Account compromise response
- Security policy documentation
When this work usually starts.
Clients rarely arrive with a perfect technical diagnosis. These are the kinds of situations that point into this capability.
- 01
Multi-factor authentication is missing, optional, or inconsistent between users and systems.
- 02
Administrative access has accumulated across employees, former providers, shared accounts, and old applications.
- 03
Company devices do not share a verified baseline for encryption, updates, endpoint protection, and local privilege.
- 04
A cyber-insurance renewal, client review, or audit asks for controls the business cannot currently prove.
- 05
A suspicious sign-in, compromised account, phishing event, or unexpected mailbox activity needs containment and review.
- 06
Security recommendations exist in a report but the priority controls were never configured, tested, or documented.
Establishing a security baseline
The goal is not a list of recommendations. It is a set of controls that are configured, tested against real workflows, and understandable afterward.
Prioritize the real gaps
Separate urgent exposure from low-value checklist work and account for how the business actually operates.
Configure, then verify
Implement the controls directly and test that they allow expected work while blocking what they were designed to stop.
Create usable evidence
Record the decisions, settings, ownership, exceptions, and response procedures the business may need to explain later.
- 01
Review identity, devices, networks, cloud services, backups, administrative access, and current written requirements.
- 02
Prioritize controls by business risk, technical dependency, user impact, and any insurance or client commitments.
- 03
Configure identity, endpoint, access, sharing, network, and recovery controls in a controlled order.
- 04
Test normal work, blocked scenarios, administrator recovery, device compliance, and exception handling.
- 05
Document the control set, ownership, evidence, exceptions, response procedures, and future review schedule.
What stays with the business.
Completion includes the records and access needed to understand, support, and change the environment afterward.
Security baseline
A documented view of identity, device, network, cloud, administrative, backup, and response controls.
Administrative access record
Current privileged accounts, assigned roles, emergency access, ownership, and removed or corrected access.
Control evidence
Configuration and validation notes that support insurance, client reviews, audits, and internal decision-making.
Response procedures
Clear actions for suspicious sign-ins, compromised accounts, lost devices, access removal, and escalation.
Related case studies.
- Engineering
Requiring both verified identity and a compliant device for company access
An engineering company needed access decisions to consider both the person signing in and the condition of the device, rather than allowing a correct password to carry the full decision.
- Healthcare & Medical Services
Removing 80 unused Microsoft 365 licenses and roughly $2,000 in monthly spend
A Microsoft 365 tenant had accumulated paid licenses for blocked, inactive, and former-employee accounts, leaving recurring costs well above the needs of the active workforce.
Services that put this capability to work
Start with what is happening.
You do not need the product name or the final scope. SyncrionIT will identify the systems involved and explain the path forward.