CONSULTANT-LED
Horizon Assessment
An evidence-led review of your environment and control landscape. Use workshops, documentation and technical findings to establish a baseline, validate priorities and shape a practical roadmap.
Discuss an assessmentOUR APPROACH
Clarity first.
Progress that lasts.
Understand the context. Design the architecture. Deliver lasting change. Identity security shaped around your organisation, from the first decision to the way controls run every day.
FROM CONTEXT TO CONTROL
The right decisions.
In the right order.
Technology matters. So do the decisions around it: who owns an identity, why access is needed, how risk is accepted and what happens when circumstances change.
Our method brings those decisions together. Build on what works, address the gaps that matter and make progress visible to the people funding and delivering the change.
THE DELIVERY METHOD
Understand. Design. Deliver.
A connected method, with evidence flowing through every stage.
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Understand the context.
What matters. What exists. What is exposed.
Start with your business priorities and the reality of your identity estate. Connect authoritative identity data, access paths and control evidence to the people accountable for them. Look across workforce, customer, privileged, machine and AI identities.
WHAT YOU LEAVE WITH
- An agreed view of scope, ownership and critical access
- A baseline of control coverage, maturity and risk
- Priorities grounded in evidence and business impact
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Design the architecture.
A target state you can explain—and deliver.
Translate the baseline into trust decisions, integration patterns and an operating model. Make the boundaries between access management, governance and privileged access explicit. Sequence the work around dependencies, business value and the capacity to adopt change.
WHAT YOU LEAVE WITH
- Target architecture and clear design decisions
- A prioritised roadmap with owners and dependencies
- Business-case inputs and agreed success measures
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Deliver lasting change.
Make the control work beyond go-live.
Connect architecture to implementation, testing and adoption. Establish how controls will be operated, how exceptions will be handled and how decisions will be evidenced. Use delivery findings to refine the next priority.
WHAT YOU LEAVE WITH
- Implementation guidance and design assurance
- Operational ownership, handover and exception paths
- Progress reporting against the agreed baseline
THE NOORGUARD HORIZON FRAMEWORK
See where you stand.
Know what comes next.
A structured way to connect identity maturity to action. Review ownership, access decisions, lifecycle controls and assurance—then agree which changes matter most and how progress will be measured.
Context & ownershipAccess & lifecycleRisk & assuranceRoadmap & value
COMING NEXT
Horizon Snapshot
A short self-service questionnaire in development. Designed to help you explore your starting point and prepare for a more detailed conversation.
Planned self-assessment · Indicative resultsHorizon Identity Intelligence ↗ is a separate platform in development.
FURTHER READING
Perspectives that inform the work.
DARK READING · COMMISSIONED BY SAILPOINT
More platforms. A greater need for direction.
Dark Reading’s respondents reported a fragmented technology estate. An identity strategy needs to connect the controls you already have, expose the gaps and prioritise the next investment.
State of Identity Security Survey · June 2025
Explore SailPoint’s identity research ↗ (opens in a new tab)About the research
108 cybersecurity and IT professionals at organisations with 500+ employees. Online survey, January–March 2025; administered and analysed by Dark Reading, commissioned by SailPoint.
Executive summary, p. 1; methodology, p. 13 (PDF pp. 2, 14).
40%
use four or more identity products or platforms
State of Identity Security Survey · June 2025
WAYS TO WORK TOGETHER
Start where you are.
Agree the question, the scope and the outcomes.
Then choose the right level of support.
A focused review.
Make sense of a specific risk, control gap or investment decision. A clear baseline and a prioritised next step.
Explore the assessmentArchitecture to action.
Shape the target state and support implementation, integration and adoption. Keep technical decisions connected to their purpose.
Explore our expertiseDirection that stays connected.
Fractional identity leadership for risk reporting, board conversations, investment cases and delivery oversight.
Explore fractional leadershipBEFORE WE BEGIN
A few useful questions.
Do we need a new identity platform?
Start with the decisions and controls you need. Review the capabilities already available, the quality of your identity data and the way the service operates. A new product may be part of the answer; the architecture should establish why.
Can you work alongside our existing team?
Yes. Agree clear responsibilities with your internal teams, delivery partners and technology vendors. NoorGuard can provide focused architecture, design assurance or fractional leadership around the work already underway.
Where do machine and AI identities fit?
In the baseline and the architecture from the outset. Identify the accountable owner, the authority to act, the resources an identity can reach and how access is reviewed or revoked. Apply controls suited to the workload or agent rather than assuming a human sign-in model.