Canadian identity and access management built on the platform you own, with joiners and leavers handled.
Most IAM services stop at the platform. One Canadian team builds it, locks down the admin accounts, and proves access came off.
Directory, single sign on, MFA, and conditional access on the licences you already hold. Most Microsoft Entra ID tenants we open already carry the features nobody switched on.
Admin accounts vaulted, elevation granted just in time, every session recorded. That's privileged access management (PAM) rather than a stronger login, and it covers the small set of accounts that can change the environment itself.
Provisioning, role changes, and identity governance your auditor can read. Joiner, mover, and leaver wired to the directory, so an account dies with the employment that justified it.
Credential abuse still appears in 39% of breaches, more than any other vector, even after falling as the front door (Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, 2026). Single sign on and privileged access management only pay off when the leaver side of the work is finished too.
IN PRODUCTION
Our access review was a spreadsheet somebody exported once a year and nobody believed. When SMEnode ran discovery they found 62 active accounts belonging to people who had left, two of them with domain admin. We didn't need new software. We needed the joiner and leaver process to actually connect to the directory, which is what they built.
Most identity projects buy a platform and never finish the boring half. The boring half is the control, and this is written by the engineer who'll own your directory, not by a product page.
Credentials are still the thing attackers use most, and the 2026 data is more interesting than the headline. Credential abuse fell to 13% as the initial way in, losing the top spot for the first time in the report's nineteen years, with software flaws taking it at 31%. Count credential abuse anywhere in the attack path, though, and it turns up in 39% of breaches, more than any other vector (source: Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, 2026). Attackers knock less often and still walk around inside using someone's login.
Most Canadian organisations we meet already own a capable identity platform inside their Microsoft licensing and use perhaps a third of it. Single sign on covers the six applications somebody set up and not the twenty that came later. MFA is enabled but exempted for the executives who complained. Conditional access sits at default. An SSO implementation stalls on those decisions rather than on the tooling, and an MFA deployment that ships with an exemption list isn't finished. We build on what you hold and say plainly when a licence tier genuinely needs upgrading, which is less often than a reseller will suggest.
Accounts outlive employment because offboarding runs through HR and payroll while the directory sits outside that flow entirely. Admin rights get granted for one migration and never withdrawn. We connect the joiner and leaver process to the directory, vault the privileged accounts, and grant elevation just in time so nobody holds domain admin permanently. Identity governance is what keeps that state true a year later, because a review nobody signs is a spreadsheet. PIPEDA applies here too: an account that shouldn't exist is an access-control failure you'd have to explain.
Four steps, and step 01 is the one clients remember. Discovery on a real directory finds things nobody expects: service accounts with passwords set in 2019, shared logins for a system three teams use, accounts for contractors whose engagement ended two summers ago. We inventory identities and entitlements before recommending anything, because the shape of the problem decides whether this is a configuration job or a platform job, and those are different quotes.
Every human, service, and shared account, what it can reach, when it was last used, and whether its owner still works here.
Directory hygiene, single sign on across the applications that matter, MFA without the exemption list, and conditional access rules that survive contact with users.
Admin accounts into a vault, elevation granted just in time and recorded, and standing domain admin reduced to nobody.
Joiner, mover, and leaver wired to the directory, plus access reviews that produce a signed record rather than an unread spreadsheet.
Answers first, including when not to start. An architect takes the call, not a salesperson.
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