— C·04Advisory
Machine Identity Governance.
Service accounts, API identities, tokens, certificates, and AI agents now outnumber human users. We assess governance maturity and produce a target-state model.
— I · Ideal client
For organisations that…
- 01Have unmanaged service accounts
- 02Operate large CI/CD estates with secrets sprawl
- 03Are deploying agentic AI
- 04Lack a non-human identity programme
— II · Scope of assessment
4 domains. Architecture-level.
01Inventory & Ownership
Where machine identities exist. Who owns them. Lifecycle.
02Secrets & Certificates
Vaulting, rotation, expiry monitoring.
03Privilege Distribution
Excessive privilege patterns. JIT and JEP for non-human identities.
04Lifecycle Automation
Provisioning and deprovisioning maturity.
— III · Engagement cadence
Week by week.
Week 1
Inventory and ownership mapping.
Week 2
Secrets and privilege analysis.
Week 3
Findings. Target state articulation.
— IV · Deliverables
What you receive.
- 01Machine identity inventory schema
- 02Risk observations and governance gaps
- 03Target operating model for non-human identity
⊘ Out of scope
- Tool deployment
- Vault implementation
Tools used
ExcelVisio / draw.ioVendor architecture references
— The next step
Begin where every Flowuity engagement begins — discovery.
Forty-five minutes. No deck. No pitch. We ask better questions about your identity estate than you have been asked.