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Identity

Every Inline Code post tagged Identity, ordered most recent first.

AI · Authorisation

MCP and the new authorisation surface nobody is reviewing

Model Context Protocol turns every internal API into a tool an agent can call on a user's behalf. The authorisation model most teams ship with is naïve, and the audit log usually proves it.

29 April 2026 · 3 min

Digital employees

Digital employees, with the governance attached

Why most digital employee deployments fail their first audit, and what a governance-first build looks like — identity, data access, supervision, and the accountability question almost no-one is answering well.

22 April 2026 · 5 min

Zero trust

Zero trust without vendor capture

Most zero-trust programs we review are vendor roadmaps in disguise — a sequence of product purchases dressed up as architecture. The actual zero-trust shift is a procedural one, and it doesn't need a million-dollar identity overhaul to start.

28 January 2026 · 5 min

Microsoft 365

Identity-first security for hybrid Microsoft 365 environments

If you run M365 with on-prem AD synchronised via Entra Connect, your security perimeter is the identity. Most mid-market environments have an Entra tenant configured in 2018 that hasn't been seriously revisited since. Here's the catch-up.

8 January 2026 · 5 min

Privileged access

Just-in-time privileged access for mid-market

Standing administrative privilege is the largest avoidable risk in most mid-market environments. The fix is a procedural change supported by tooling you probably already own. The work is mostly the policy, not the technology.

17 September 2025 · 6 min

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