Non-Human Identity Assessment

NHI ASSESSMENT

Discover, assess, and reduce hidden machine identity risk.

Modern businesses are powered by more than human users. Behind every cloud application, automation workflow, API integration, DevOps pipeline, and AI agent, there are machine identities working silently in the background. IDMEXPRESS helps companies find and deal with risks they might not know about,

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NHI

Most organizations know how to manage employees and admins. But machine identities are created quickly, forgotten over time, and rarely reviewed — making them one of the most overlooked risks in enterprise security.

Understand the risk

WHAT ARE NHIs

The identities your organization may not be watching.

Modern businesses are powered by more than human users. Behind every cloud application, automation workflow, API integration, DevOps pipeline, and AI agent, machine identities are working silently in the background. These are called Non-Human Identities (NHIs).

They are often created quickly, used across multiple systems, and forgotten over time. Many do not have a clear owner. Some use long-lived credentials. Some have more access than they need. Some remain active long after the project that created them is gone.

That makes Non-Human Identity risk one of the most overlooked areas of modern identity security.

NHI

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8 Questions this assessment answers.

How many Non-Human Identities do we actually have?

01

Who owns our service accounts, API keys, and AI agents?

02

Which machine identities are over-permissioned?

03

Which credentials are long-lived, stale, or overdue for rotation?

04

Security, IAM, cloud, DevOps, and compliance teams across industries are asking the same questions. The NHI Assessment is built to answer every one of them — clearly and practically.

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Which identities are inactive but still enabled?

05

Which AI agents or automation workflows have risky access?

06

Which identities create the highest business or compliance risk?

07

What should we fix first?

08

WHAT WE ASSESS

Seven key areas. One complete picture.

The NHI Assessment reviews the key areas that create machine identity risk.

NHI
Discovery

We help identify machine identities across cloud, automation, and AI-driven environments, including service accounts, API keys, access tokens, cloud IAM users, service principals, managed identities, automation bots, CI/CD identities, and AI agents.

Ownership and Accountability

We help identify identities that do not have a clear owner. This is important because an identity without an owner is difficult to review, rotate, approve, or decommission.

Credential
Hygiene

We review credential risk indicators such as long-lived credentials, missing expiration, overdue rotation, stale secrets, and risky credential patterns.

Privilege and Access Risk

We help identify identities with excessive access, admin-level permissions, or permissions that may not align with least-privilege principles.

Stale and
Inactive Identities

We help find machine identities that appear inactive, outdated, or no longer tied to a current business process.

AI-Agent
Identity Risk

We assess emerging identity risks created by AI agents, automation workflows, and agentic systems that may access tools, files, APIs, cloud resources, or enterprise applications.

Compliance and

Governance Gaps

We make complex technical results easy to understand, focusing on important issues like who owns what, who has access to what they shouldn't, how to manage passwords and credentials, and what needs to be fixed first.

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HOW IT WORKS

Five steps. One clear path forward.

Every NHI Assessment follows the same proven process — from discovery to a roadmap your team can act on immediately.

Discover

We identify Non-Human Identities in scope across your selected cloud, automation, and AI environments. Many organizations discover identities they never knew existed.

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2

Assess

Each identity is reviewed against key risk areas — ownership, credential posture, usage activity, privilege level, access exposure, and governance gaps.

Prioritize

Our results are sorted by risk severity — so your team knows which machine identities need immediate attention and which can be scheduled for later review.

3

Recommend

We provide practical, actionable guidance — ownership assignment, credential rotation, privilege reduction, stale identity cleanup, and governance control improvements.

4

Roadmap

We help your team understand what to tackle right away, what to prioritize next, and how to build a stronger long-term plan for governing Non-Human Identity risk.

5

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WHAT WE ASSESS

A complete deliverable package for every stakeholder.

Every NHI Assessment follows the same proven process — from discovery to a roadmap your team can act on immediately.

NHI Inventory Summary

A complete inventory of Non-Human Identities found across your environment, categorized by type and environment.

Risk Categorization

Findings prioritized by risk level — high, medium, and needs review — with clear context for each category.

Orphaned Identity Findings

All unowned, orphaned, or abandoned machine identities identified with remediation recommendations.

Credential Risk Findings

Long-lived, unrotated, stale, or missing-expiry credentials flagged with priority and remediation guidance.

Privilege & Access Findings

Least-privilege gaps, excessive-access findings, and over-permissioned identities with reduction recommendations.

Prioritized Roadmap

A clear, sequenced remediation roadmap — immediate actions, near-term priorities, and long-term governance goals.

Also included: AI-agent identity risk observations · Compliance & governance gap summary · Executive summary · Technical findings for IAM, cloud & DevOps teams

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OTHER TOOLS COVER ANE AREA

Point tools miss
the full picture.

- Some tools scan for secrets

- Some tools manage privileged credentials

- Some tools provide cloud posture visibility

- Some tools focus on identity governance

IDMEXPRESS COVERS ALL OF IT

We see the complete
machine identity picture.

What identities exist and where

Who owns them — or doesn't

What access they have

Whether their credentials are safe

- Some tools monitor AI activity

Whether they are still being used

Whether AI agents introduce new risk

Whether they are still being used

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WHO IT'S FOR

Built for the teams responsible for
identity, security, and governance.

The NHI Assessment is designed for anyone who needs visibility and control over machine identity risk.

IAM Leaders

IAM Leaders

PAM Leaders

PAM Leaders

CISOs & Security Leaders

CISOs & Security Leaders

Cloud Security Teams

Cloud Security Teams

Application Owners

Application Owners

DevOps & Platform Engineering

DevOps & Platform Engineering

Compliance & Audit Teams

Compliance & Audit Teams

Risk Management Teams

Risk Management Teams

AI Governance Teams

AI Governance Teams

IDEAL FOR ORGANIZATIONS USING:

AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud

CI/CD & Automation Pipelines

AI Agents & Agentic Workflows

Regulated or Audit-Heavy Environments

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FAQs

Companies need an NHI Assessment because machine identities are often created quickly and then forgotten. A service account may stay active after a project ends. An API key may never be rotated. An automation identity may have more access than it needs. An AI agent may be operating without proper governance.An NHI Assessment helps organizations find these risks before they become a security breach, compliance issue, or audit finding — and provides a clear plan for what to fix first.

No. Any organization using cloud services, APIs, automation, SaaS integrations, DevOps pipelines, privileged credentials, or AI agents can benefit from an NHI Assessment.Large enterprises may have a bigger machine identity footprint, but smaller organizations can face serious risk from just a handful of unmanaged service accounts, leaked API keys, or ungoverned automation credentials. Machine identity risk does not scale with company size — it scales with cloud and automation adoption.

Secret scanning is a valuable tool that helps find exposed credentials — such as API keys or tokens sitting in code repositories or logs.An NHI Assessment goes further by looking at the full identity behind the credential. It helps answer:Who owns this identity?What access does it have?Is it still being used?Are its permissions excessive?What remediation should happen first? Secret scanning finds the exposed key. NHI Assessment helps you understand and govern the identity that key belongs to.

AI agents and automation workflows can access files, APIs, cloud services, databases, and enterprise applications across your organization. If their identities, credentials, and permissions are not governed, they create unmanaged access paths that are difficult to detect and control.NHI security helps organizations adopt AI more safely by bringing AI-agent identities, credentials, permissions, and activity into the same governance process as service accounts and API keys — so that AI works for the business, not around its security controls.

Getting started is straightforward. Reach out to IDMEXPRESS and we will have a short conversation about your environment, your goals, and your identity security priorities.From there, we scope the assessment to your needs — covering the cloud platforms, automation tools, and AI environments that matter most to your organization. You will receive a clear set of findings, a risk-prioritized roadmap, and support to help your team act on what we find.

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Find what exists.
Understand what is risky.
Fix what matters first.

Our experts will help you discover, assess, and prioritize Non-Human Identity risk across your cloud, automation, and AI environments — and give you a clear roadmap to act on.

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Don't wait for shadow AI or a stale service account to become a security incident.

NHI ASSESSMENT

Discover, assess, and reduce hidden machine identity risk.

NHI

The identities your organization may not be watching.

NHI

8

Questions this assessment answers.

01

02

03

04

05

06

07

08

Seven key areas. One complete picture.

NHI Discovery

Ownership and Accountability

We help identify identities that do not have a clear owner. This is important because an identity without an owner is difficult to review, rotate, approve, or decommission.

Credential Hygiene

Privilege and Access Risk

We help identify identities with excessive access, admin-level permissions, or permissions that may not align with least-privilege principles.

Stale and Inactive Identities

AI-Agent Identity Risk

We assess emerging identity risks created by AI agents, automation workflows, and agentic systems that may access tools, files, APIs, cloud resources, or enterprise applications.

Compliance and

Governance Gaps

Five steps. One clear path forward.

Discover

1

2

Assess

Prioritize

3

Recommend

4

Roadmap

5

A complete deliverable package for every stakeholder.

Point tools miss the full picture.

We see the complete machine identity picture.

Built for the teams responsible for identity, security, and governance.

FAQs

Why do companies need a Non-Human Identity Assessment?

Is an NHI Assessment only for large enterprises?

How is NHI Assessment different from secret scanning?

Why is NHI security important for AI adoption?

How do we get started with an NHI Assessment from IDMEXPRESS?

GET STARTED

Find what exists. Understand what is risky. Fix what matters first.

NHI
Discovery

Credential
Hygiene

Stale and
Inactive Identities

AI-Agent
Identity Risk

Point tools miss
the full picture.

We see the complete
machine identity picture.

Built for the teams responsible for
identity, security, and governance.

Find what exists.
Understand what is risky.
Fix what matters first.