Solution · Non-Human Identity Governance
Inventory service accounts, workload identities, OAuth clients, and API principals—then assign ownership, govern lifecycle and entitlements, run certifications, and preserve correlated evidence on Identity Fabric.
Service Accounts, Workloads, and Machine Identity Governance
A solution assembled from established platform capabilities—with clear identity-class licensing for workforce, partner, Managed NHI, and agent populations.
Assign ownership. Govern access. Certify entitlements. Retire what no one owns.
Cloud platforms, automation pipelines, integrations, and legacy directories create thousands of service accounts, workload identities, and machine principals—often without clear owners, without joiner-mover-leaver discipline, and without certification. Discovery tools expose the problem but do not create accountability. EmpowerID treats governed non-human identities as first-class populations inside the same Identity Fabric that governs people—ownership, lifecycle, access, risk, and evidence—not a separate shadow directory.
EmpowerID licenses by governed identity class. Understanding the distinction prevents surprise charges and keeps agent programs separate from durable NHI governance.
Durable principals actively governed through ownership assignment, lifecycle control, access requests or policy, certification, risk remediation, or similar governed operations. This is the Non-Human Identity Governance solution scope.
Discovered or collected identities not yet under active governance workflows. Licensed through Identity Collection & Reconciliation for inventory, correlation, and comparison—not as Managed NHI populations.
AI agents and digital workers governed under Agent Governance & Execution—bounded purpose, dynamic authorization, and governed effect. Agents licensed under Agent Governance are not charged again as Managed NHI.
Active Directory, LDAP, Entra, and hybrid technical accounts with long-lived credentials.
Azure managed identities, AWS IAM roles, GCP service accounts, and Kubernetes service accounts tied to running workloads.
OAuth clients, API keys, SCIM tokens, and integration accounts connecting SaaS and custom systems.
SAP technical users, batch accounts, and application service identities with privileged entitlements.
Pipeline bots, deployment principals, and orchestration accounts that outlive the projects that created them.
Legacy shared credentials and ownerless accounts discovered during inventory that require remediation or retirement.
01
Service accounts persist after projects end because no one is accountable for decommissioning or recertifying access.
02
Long-lived passwords, keys, and tokens multiply across clouds and directories without centralized lifecycle policy.
03
Technical accounts accumulate group memberships, roles, and standing access that never appear in workforce certification campaigns.
04
Inventory reports expose risk but do not assign owners, enforce lifecycle, or connect remediation to fulfillment.
05
Cloud IAM, PAM vaults, and IGA catalogs each hold fragments of truth without one governed identity graph and evidence model.
Move durable machine principals from inventory into accountable ownership, governed change, certification, and safe retirement.
Collect service accounts and workload identities from directories, clouds, and applications. Normalize, correlate, and compare against policy targets through Identity Collection & Reconciliation.
Attach business and technical owners to non-human identities so certification, remediation, and decommission requests route to accountable parties—not generic admin queues.
Route NHI creation, entitlement changes, and credential operations through access requests, approvals, and orchestrated fulfillment—with policy constraints on what may be provisioned.
Run access reviews and recertification campaigns for service accounts and workload entitlements alongside workforce populations—using the same governance spine and evidence.
Identify ownerless accounts, dormant credentials, and SoD conflicts involving technical identities across connected systems.
Orchestrate disablement, credential rotation, entitlement removal, and deletion with compensating checks so automation accounts are not removed while still in use.
Both appear in security conversations about “non-person” access—but they solve different problems on Identity Fabric.
| Dimension | Managed NHI | Agent Governance |
|---|---|---|
| Principal type | Durable service accounts, workload identities, and integration principals with relatively stable lifecycles | AI agents and digital workers executing bounded, dynamic work with purpose-bound authority |
| Primary control point | Ownership, lifecycle, entitlement governance, and certification | Authorization before each consequential action, governed execution, and proof of effect |
| Commercial class | Managed NHI population under Identity Governance | Agent Governance & Execution—not double-licensed as NHI |
Step 1
Connect directories, clouds, and applications through collection and reconciliation to establish scope.
Step 2
Identify ownerless, privileged, dormant, and shared accounts requiring immediate governance.
Step 3
Establish accountable owners and governance policies for Managed NHI populations.
Step 4
Route creation, change, and retirement through requests, approvals, and orchestrated fulfillment.
Step 5
Run recertification campaigns and reconcile drift so NHIs do not fall out of governance between audits.
Move from discovery reports to owned, certifiable, lifecycle-managed non-human identities inside the same program as workforce IGA.
Share identity graph, policy, orchestration, connectors, and correlated evidence—instead of a separate NHI tool disconnected from IGA.
When autonomous agents enter the estate, extend the same foundation to Agent Governance without rebuilding identity truth or policy from scratch.
Start with collection and reconciliation to understand scope, then promote identities to Managed NHI governance as programs mature.
Connect NHI governance to PAM patterns and cloud workload identity inventory where deployments include those capabilities.
Link ownership changes, certifications, approvals, and fulfillment for non-human identities to operational and audit investigations.
Discovery finds them. Governance owns them—with accountable owners and lifecycle control.
Identity Governance
Ownership, lifecycle, access requests, certification, and SoD for Managed NHI populations
Identity Collection & Reconciliation
Discovery, inventory, correlation, and comparison before or alongside active governance
Governed Authorization
Runtime policy for applications, APIs, and workloads where attribute-aware decisions apply
Orchestration & Fulfillment
Provisioning, remediation, credential operations, and decommission workflows
Agent Governance & Execution
Separate product path for AI agents—not double-licensed as Managed NHI
Existing PAM and Access Management
Vault, session, and access patterns for supported legacy deployments
Connector coverage, cloud inventory depth, PAM integration, and certification templates vary by edition and deployment. Confirm availability for your environments before publishing customer-specific commitments.
No. Discovery and inventory through Identity Collection & Reconciliation does not by itself create a Managed NHI charge. Licensing applies when identities are actively governed as Managed NHI populations—ownership, lifecycle, access, certification, risk, or remediation under the governance program.
No. Agents governed under Agent Governance & Execution are licensed through that product. They are not charged again as Managed NHI.
Non-Human Identity Governance is a solution powered by EmpowerID Identity Governance and Identity Fabric services—it extends the governed model to service accounts, workload identities, and related machine principals.
Yes. Many programs begin with collection and reconciliation to quantify scope and risk, then expand to Managed NHI governance for prioritized populations.
EmpowerID governs identity lifecycle, ownership, access, and evidence across connected systems. Cloud provider IAM and PAM capabilities may remain in place while EmpowerID provides the unified governance spine and orchestration.
Non-human identities can participate in the same governance program structure—dedicated certification campaigns, ownership models, and remediation workflows—without treating service accounts as human users.
Online
Powered by EmpowerID AI
