Non-Human & Machine Identity Security
Assess and govern non-human identities — secrets, API keys, service accounts, workload identities, and AI agent identities — covering issuance, rotation, least-privilege, and lifecycle.
In scope
- Secrets & API key inventory
- Service & workload identity review
- AI agent identity & privilege
- Rotation & lifecycle governance
- Least-privilege & vaulting
You receive
- NHI security assessment report
- Identity inventory & risk ranking
- Secrets governance plan
- Lifecycle & rotation recommendations
Tiers
Choose the depth.
Essential
Scoped
Point-in-time review for up to 3 cloud accounts and up to 25 repositories: inventory of secrets, API keys and service accounts, exposure and over-privilege findings, and a risk-ranked inventory with rotation recommendations.
- cloud accounts
- 3
- repositories
- 25
- Secrets and API key inventory
- Service account privilege review
- Repository secret scanning
- Risk-ranked identity inventory
- Rotation recommendations
- — Workload identities (Kubernetes, CI/CD, cloud roles)
- — AI agent identities
- — Secrets governance plan and lifecycle policy
- — Vault implementation
Advanced
Scoped
Assessment for up to 10 cloud accounts and up to 100 repositories. Adds workload identities (CI/CD, Kubernetes, cloud roles) and AI agent identities and their privileges, a secrets governance plan, lifecycle and rotation policy, and least-privilege and vaulting design.
- cloud accounts
- 10
- repositories
- 100
- Everything in Essential at the larger scope
- Workload identity review
- AI agent identity and privilege review
- Secrets governance plan
- Lifecycle and rotation policy
- Vaulting and least-privilege design
- — Ongoing inventory refresh
- — Vault or secrets manager implementation
- — Rotating credentials on the client's behalf
Enterprise
Scoped
Continuous machine-identity governance program
- — Vault or secrets manager licences
- — Rotating credentials on the client's behalf
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What's inside this engagement
Phase by phase.
How a cloud & identity assessment engagement runs, what happens in each phase and what you see. Exact scope, tier and timeline are fixed in your proposal and SOW.
01Scoping & read-only access
Accounts, subscriptions and tenants in scope, with read-only audit roles set up.
You see · Read-only access for the assessment.
02Configuration & identity review
IAM, network exposure, logging, encryption and workload configuration against CIS benchmarks and provider best practice.
You see · Nothing further.
03Attack-path analysis
Misconfigurations chained into realistic paths to sensitive data or admin control.
You see · The paths that matter, not just a list.
04Reporting & remediation plan
Prioritized findings with the exact configuration change, plus quick wins.
You see · A fix plan your platform team can run.
Commercials
From first call to final report.
- 01
Scoping call
A practitioner, not a salesperson, walks through targets, constraints and what a good outcome looks like for you.
- 02
Proposal & rules of engagement
A fixed-scope proposal with tier, price and deliverables. Rules of engagement, contacts and out-of-bounds systems are agreed in writing.
- 03
Sign, then start
MSA and SOW are signed electronically and the deposit is paid. Only then does testing begin.
- 04
Execution
Testing runs to the agreed plan. Critical findings are escalated as they are found; you don't wait for the report.
- 05
Report & debrief
An executive summary plus technical findings with evidence, reproduction steps and fixes, walked through with your team.
- 06
Retest
Where the tier includes it, we verify your fixes and reissue the report, so auditors and customers see the issues closed.
Timelines are set per engagement in the SOW.
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Research
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A Tale of Two SOCs: CISA Ran the Same Attack Against Two Organizations. One Caught It in Two Minutes. One Never Saw It.
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