NHI LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT
Manage NHIs From Creation to Decommissioning
Bring NHIs into your IAM lifecycle. Automate ownership, enforce policies, and streamline rotation, revocation, and expiration – without the manual overhead.
According to a CSA report
20%
have a formal process for offboarding and revoking API keys
40%
of organizations take weeks or more to offboard API keys
Where lifecycle management programs fall short on NHIs
Lack of visibility and control
NHIs often lack clear ownership and lifecycle management. Expired or orphaned service principles, secrets, and certificates go unaddressed, creating security gaps.
Manual, time-consuming processes
Without automation, IAM teams waste time on tedious tasks instead of focusing on improvements.
Operational blind spots
Departed employees may still have access to active NHIs, which can lead to data exfiltration or systems shutdown. Without automated attestation and ownership verification, NHIs persist long after they’re no longer needed.
Control NHI sprawl and automate lifecycle
Eliminate lifecycle blind spots
Gain continuous visibility into NHIs with clear ownership, usage insights, and near real-time monitoring – no more orphaned identities, expired secrets, or unmanaged service principals.
Automate the heavy lifting
Reduce manual work with automated secret rotation, attestation workflows, and NHI decommissioning. Spend less time chasing expiration dates and more time controlling identities.
Enforce policies without friction
Standardize secret usage, access policies, and offboarding workflows. Automate governance across cloud, SaaS, and third-party integrations – without slowing down operations.
How it’s done
Inventory, ownership & monitoring
Discovery & lifecycle tracking
Continuously inventory service accounts, secrets, OAuth apps, IAM roles, API keys, and other NHIs. Track lifecycle status, expiration dates, and usage trends to prevent security gaps.
NHI ownership
Assign and verify ownership of NHIs with automated attestation workflows. Regularly prompt owners to confirm usage and responsibility.
Reduce shadow IT and over-provisioning
Identify and remediate stale, over-privileged, or unused NHIs. Collaborate with security to rotate or remove them without disrupting operations.
Secret management, policy & offboarding
Secret rotation & enforcement
Centrally manage secrets with policy-driven rotation, revocation, and usage monitoring across secret managers and vaults
Policy-based attestation
Enforce NHI security policies with automated access and usage reviews. Set up continuous attestation workflows that notify owners and managers when NHIs require validation or adjustments
Third-party risk exposure
Map vendor access and enforce least privilege and zero trust for NHIs. Monitor compliance and alert security teams on anomalies.
NHI decommissioning
Offboard NHIs automatically when employees leave, vendor contract terminations, or inactivity – eliminating exposure from abandoned identities.
Reporting & remediation
Automate remediation
Use out-of-the-box policies to remediate expired, misconfigured, or high-risk NHIs in a single click. Build custom workflows to match security and compliance needs.
Audit logs & compliance reporting
Generate compliance and board-ready reports with insights into NHI usage, risk, and lifecycle events. Simplify audits for frameworks like PCI DSS, SOX, and GDPR.
Enterprise integrations
Seamlessly integrate with ITSM, SIEM, GRC and ticketing platforms to automate workflows and reduce operational overhead.
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