Available for Q2/Q3 Engagements

Identity Security That Holds Up in Production

Senior IAM/PAM specialist with seven years securing identity infrastructure across UK financial services. Production-grade Okta, Azure Entra ID, HashiCorp Vault, and Zero Trust architecture - delivered the way it actually works at scale.

Identity flow: user authenticates with MFA, accesses the vault, retrieves credentials, then connects to the resource // IDENTITY ACCESS FLOW User + MFA IdP SAML / OIDC Vault JIT + TTL Server SESSION ACTIVE · AUDIT ON · TTL 60m
Frameworks & Platforms
NIST CSF ISO 27001 SAMA NCA ECC Okta Azure Entra ID HashiCorp Vault

Five Ways I Help Security Teams

No bloated retainers. No glossy decks. Each engagement is scoped tightly, priced fairly, and built to leave your team better equipped than when I arrived.

IAM Architecture

Zero Trust IAM design, SSO federation strategy, and cloud identity blueprints across Azure Entra ID, Okta, and hybrid environments.

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Implementation

Hands-on Okta, Vault, and Entra ID delivery. Configuration, integration, runbooks. Your team owns the outcome when I leave.

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Compliance Mapping

Map IAM and PAM controls to NIST CSF, ISO 27001, SAMA, NCA ECC, PCI DSS, and CIS. Audit-ready evidence packs your auditors will accept.

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Training

Free hands-on labs covering IAM and PAM end to end. Bespoke team workshops by enquiry only - limited availability.

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Senior Engineer. Educator. No Theatre.

I have spent the last seven years inside the privileged access teams of major UK banks and global IT services providers. I have onboarded the difficult accounts. I have written the runbooks. I have explained to auditors why a finding looks worse than it is.

Identity Bytes exists to share what actually works in production - not what reads well in a vendor whitepaper. The labs are free and stay free. The consulting is for organisations that want senior expertise without big-firm overheads.

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7+
Years in IAM/PAM
5
Enterprise Roles
47
Countries Supported
10
Free Hands-on Labs

Learn by Building It

Production-grade hands-on labs. Open-source tooling and free-tier accounts only - no enterprise licences required.

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Lab 01 · Fundamentals
Beginner

OpenLDAP - Your First Directory

Stand up an enterprise-style directory in Docker. Master DN structures, object classes, and LDIF - the foundation every IAM platform builds on.

2 hrs Ubuntu + Docker
Lab 04 · Intermediate
Intermediate

Okta SSO with SAML 2.0

Configure Okta as an Identity Provider, federate a sample app over SAML, enforce MFA, and build your first lifecycle automation.

3 hrs Okta Free
Lab 09 · Advanced
Advanced

Zero Trust PAM with Vault + Okta

A complete JIT pipeline. Vault dynamic secrets, Okta OIDC authentication, time-bound privilege elevation, and full audit trail.

6 hrs Multi-container

Straight from Production

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Analysis

M&S Breach: What Scattered Spider Knew About Identity

How social engineering bypassed enterprise MFA and the IAM controls that would have stopped it.

Guide

Breakglass Procedures - Production Runbook

Complete runbook for emergency privileged access: invocation, audit, and credential rotation.

Article

Agentic AI and PAM: NHIs Are the Next Frontier

AI agents need credentials too. Why machine identity is the next PAM scaling problem.

Ready to Talk About Your Environment?

Thirty-minute discovery call. No obligation. We figure out together whether I am the right fit before either of us commits to anything.

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