Identity Access Management Services
The “Silent Majority” of Your Attack Surface.
Non-human identities outnumber employees 45:1. They don’t sleep, they don’t use MFA, and they often have Domain Admin rights. We help you discover, inventory, and secure the invisible workforce running your enterprise.
The Problem
The “45:1” Blind Spot
You Can’t Secure What You Can’t See While you focused on securing human users with MFA and SSO, your machine identities grew unchecked. The result is a sprawling, invisible attack surface:
- The “Orphaned” Account: Service accounts created for projects 5 years ago are still active, with passwords that haven’t been rotated since 2018.
- The “Hardcoded” Secret: Developers embedding API keys and credentials directly into code repositories (GitHub, GitLab), leaving them exposed to anyone with read access.
- The “Over-Privileged” Bot: An RPA bot that only needs to read one folder but was given Domain Admin rights “just to make it work.”
- The Audit Failure: Auditors are now specifically targeting non-human access. If you can’t produce an inventory of service accounts and their owners, you will fail.
The Reality: “75% of organizations experienced a security incident related to a machine identity in the last 12 months.” — Industry Research
The Solution:
The Machine Identity Governance Framework
Bringing Order to the Machine Chaos We apply the same rigor to machine identities that you apply to humans. Our framework moves you from “unknown risk” to “automated governance.”
Phase 1: Discovery & Inventory (Weeks 1-4) We deploy passive scanning tools to find every service account, API key, and certificate in your environment. We correlate these technical accounts to their human owners (or mark them as orphaned).
- Outcome: A complete, searchable inventory of non-human identities.
Phase 2: Risk Assessment & Cleanup (Weeks 5-8) We analyze the behavior of these accounts. Is a “backup” service account logging in interactively? Is a “printer” account accessing the finance server? We flag anomalies and safely decommission orphaned accounts.
- Outcome: Immediate reduction of attack surface by 30-50%.
Phase 3: Automated Lifecycle Management (Weeks 9+) We implement tools to automate credential rotation. No more manual password changes that break applications. We integrate with your DevOps pipeline to inject secrets dynamically, eliminating hardcoded keys.
- Outcome: “Zero Touch” credential management.
Core Capabilities
Service Account Governance Service accounts are the #1 target for lateral movement. We implement “Just-in-Time” access for admin tasks and enforce periodic reviews to ensure every account has a valid business owner.
- We Deliver: Automated ownership certification and rotation workflows.
Secrets Management & DevOps Security Developers prioritize speed over security. We meet them halfway. We implement Vault solutions (HashiCorp, CyberArk Conjur, Azure Key Vault) that allow code to fetch credentials securely at runtime.
- We Deliver: A “Secrets Zero” environment where no keys exist in code.
Bot & RPA Identity Security Robotic Process Automation (RPA) bots are essentially high-speed users. We secure their access without breaking their workflows, ensuring they only access data required for their specific tasks.
- We Deliver: Least-privilege policies for UiPath, Blue Prism, and other RPA platforms.
Success Story
Securing 5,000 “Invisible” Accounts The Challenge: A financial services client failed an audit due to lack of visibility into 5,000+ service accounts. They had no idea who owned them or what they did. The Airitos Approach:
- Month 1: Deployed discovery tools and identified 1,200 orphaned accounts (no login in 12+ months).
- Month 2: Disabled orphaned accounts with a “scream test” rollback plan. (Zero actual screams received).
- Month 3: Onboarded the remaining critical accounts into a PAM vault for automated rotation. The Result: Reduced service account count by 25% and achieved 100% audit compliance for machine identity controls.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Will rotating service account passwords break our applications? A: Not if done correctly. We use an “application-aware” rotation strategy. We identify dependencies first, then configure the PAM tool to update the password in the application configuration file simultaneously with the directory change.
Q: How do we find “hardcoded” secrets in our code? A: We use specialized scanning tools that look for high-entropy strings (like API keys) in your code repositories. We then help developers replace these with calls to a secure vault.
Q: Does this cover cloud identities (AWS/Azure)? A: Yes. Cloud infrastructure creates machine identities at a massive scale (Lambda functions, EC2 roles). Our framework includes Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) to secure these ephemeral identities.