How ObservelD discovers, classifies, and governs every Non-Human Identity, from service accounts and API keys to Agentic Al workloads – delivering complete NHI lifecycle control and eliminating your most dangerous blind spot.
Traditional IAM platforms were built for humans. They cannot scale to the volume, velocity, or variety of machine identities in modern cloud-native and Agentic Al environments.
Service accounts are created across multi-cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines, and SaaS tools with no centralized inventory. Security teams cannot govern what they cannot see.
API keys and tokens leak into GitHub commits, Slack messages, Jira tickets, and SharePoint often without detection for months. 57% of secret exposures originate in source code repositories.
97% of NHIs carry excessive privileges. 1 in 20 AWS machine identities holds full-admin access a single compromised token grants an attacker unrestricted access across the entire cloud estate
91% of former employee tokens remain active after offboarding. Identities outlive the humans who created them, quietly retaining access and expanding the attack surface indefinitely.
Autonomous Al agents spawn NHIs in security blind spots-receiving broad, persistent access to sensitive systems without any governance framework, lifecycle policy, or audit trail.
SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI-DSS increasingly require evidence of NHI governance. Manual spreadsheets and fragmented tools cannot produce the audit trail regulators demand.
NHI to human ratio in the average enterprise - up from 92:1 in 2024
of NHIs carry excessive privileges, violating least-privilege principles
of NHIs are never rotated within recommended timeframes
Year over year growth in NHIs driven by cloud automation and Agentic Al
Observeld connects to 250+ integrations to discover and govern the full spectrum of machine identities across your cloud, on-premises, and SaaS environments.
Privileged accounts used by applications, scripts, and automation tools to authenticate to systems and services. Often created without ownership or expiry policies.
Static credentials embedded in code, config files, and CI/CD pipelines to authenticate machine-to-machine calls. Frequently long-lived, over-scoped, and never rotated.
Short- or long-lived tokens issued to applications for delegated access to resources. Misconfigurations in OAuth flows create persistent, unmonitored access paths.
Autonomous AI agents and LLM-powered workflows that spawn new identities dynamically, often with broad tool-use permissions and no defined lifecycle or revocation policy.
Passwords, connection strings, TLS certificates, and SSH keys embedded in infrastructure, code repositories, and collaboration tools often without a secrets manager in place.
Identities used by build, test, and deployment pipelines to access cloud infrastructure, container registries, and production environments a critical but highly exposed footprint.
IAM roles, instance profiles, and workload identity federations assigned to compute resources, serverless functions, and containers running in cloud environments.
Credentials and tokens granted to external vendors, SaaS platforms, and partner integrations often with excessive permissions and no regular review or revocation process.
Robotic Process Automation bots that authenticate to enterprise applications using shared or dedicated credentials, creating privileged access paths that bypass standard IAM controls.
ObserveID enforces a complete, automated lifecycle for every Non-Human Identity from the moment it is created to the moment it is decommissioned.
Scan all cloud, SaaS, CI/CD, and collaboration tools to build a complete NHI inventory
Auto-tag each NHI by type, owner, environment, and risk level
Enforce least-privilege policies, automated rotation, and approval workflows
Monitor behavioral baselines and trigger real-time alerts on anomalous NHI activity
Auto-revoke, rotate, or quarantine compromised credentials without human delay
Generate compliance-ready reports for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI-DSS on demand
Connects to 500+ integrations - AWS, Azure, GCP, GitHub, Slack, Salesforce, and more - to build a real-time inventory of every machine identity, mapped to its owning application, team, and business context.
Analyzes actual usage patterns against assigned permissions to identify over-privileged NHIs and Super NHIs, then automates remediation - enforcing least-privilege workflow without disrupting workflows.
Continuously scans source code repos, CI/CD pipelines, SharePoint, Slack, and Jira for exposed credentials. Triggers automated rotation the moment a secret is detected outside a vault.
Establishes behavioral baselines for every NHI and triggers real-time alerts when anomalous patterns emerge - lateral movement, unusual API call volumes, or access from unexpected geolocations.
Generates on-demand audit reports pre-mapped to SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, and NIST frameworks. Eliminates manual evidence collection and reduces audit prep time upto 70%.
| Capability | Without ObserveID | With ObserveID |
|---|---|---|
| NHI Inventory | No centralized view; spreadsheets | Real-time, auto-updated inventory |
| Secret Exposure Detection | Months to detect, if ever | Detected at time of exposure |
| Credential Rotation | Manual, infrequent, error-prone | Automated, policy-driven |
| Privilege Enforcement | Over-privileged by default | AI right-sized continuously |
| Orphaned Identity Cleanup | Persist indefinitely | Auto-detected & decommissioned |
| Agentic AI Governance | No visibility or policy | Full lifecycle governance |
| Audit Readiness | Weeks of manual prep | On-demand, always ready |
This is not hypothetical. In March 2025, attackers compromised a GitHub Action using a stolen personal access token, silently exfiltrating secrets from over 23,000 repositories. Here is how it unfolds and how ObserveID stops it.
A CI/CD service account token is accidentally included in a configuration file. It is flagged as "private" so the team assumes it is safe. The token has not been rotated in 14 months and carries admin-level permissions to the cloud environment.
The file is synced locally and automatically uploaded to a shared SharePoint folder, making the credential accessible to hundreds of employees and third-party contractors none of whom are aware.
A vendor integration with read access to SharePoint is compromised. The attacker retrieves the token and uses it to pivot laterally across AWS services, escalating privileges through over-permissioned IAM roles.
Without behavioral baselines for machine identities, the SIEM generates no alerts. The NHI is indistinguishable from normal automation traffic. The breach is only discovered during a routine compliance audit.
ObserveID's continuous secrets scanning detects the token in SharePoint at the moment of sync. The AI engine flags the anomalous usage pattern within minutes. Automated rotation is triggered immediately. The blast radius is zero.
Objective-based deployment that minimizes disruption and delivers measurable NHI governance outcomes fast.
Connect ObserveID to your cloud, SaaS, CI/CD, and collaboration tools via pre-built connectors. Build a complete, real-time NHI inventory within hours of go-live.
AI engine automatically classifies every NHI by type, owner, environment, and risk level. Super NHIs and orphaned identities are surfaced immediately for prioritized remediation.
Define least-privilege policies and rotation schedules. ObserveID enforces them automatically no manual intervention required for routine credential hygiene.
ObserveID establishes behavioral baselines for every NHI and activates real-time threat detection. Anomalous patterns trigger automated response workflows within minutes.
Activate on-demand compliance reporting pre-mapped to SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, and NIST. Audit evidence is always current, always complete.
