Machine identities now outnumber human identities — by a wide margin
Modern environments are driven by automation. Microservices talk to each other, pipelines deploy code, sensors report back to control systems. Every one of those interactions carries an identity — and most organisations have little visibility into how many exist, where they live, or when they expire.
What we help you secure
- Manage the full lifecycle of certificates across your server estate and internet-facing services — from issuance and renewal to revocation and compliance reporting.
- Issue and manage certificates for connected devices at scale — including industrial controllers, sensors, and field equipment in OT environments — with support for device onboarding and automated renewal.
- Provide short-lived, cryptographically verified identities to Kubernetes pods, microservices, and CI/CD pipelines — eliminating hardcoded credentials and ensuring workloads can authenticate without static secrets.
- Replace long-lived static API keys and service account passwords with certificate-based or token-based authentication — reducing credential sprawl and giving you auditability over machine-to-machine communication.
TLS/SSL certificates for servers and services
IoT and OT device certificates
Workload and container identity
Service accounts and API authentication
Built on PKI
The foundation of machine identity is cryptographic trust — and that trust is issued through a Public Key Infrastructure. Whether you run an on-premise CA, a cloud PKI, or a hybrid architecture, the certificates your machines rely on trace back to a PKI that must be properly designed, operated, and maintained. Our Machine Identity practice works directly with our PKI team to ensure every identity issued is rooted in a trustworthy, well-governed CA hierarchy.
Where organisations typically run into trouble
No inventory
- Most organisations don't know how many machine identities they have, where they live, or who issued them. Discovering this is usually the first step.
Manual renewal processes
- Certificate expiry is the leading cause of unplanned outages. Spreadsheet-based tracking fails at scale — automation is essential.
Fragmented ownership
- Platform teams, DevOps, and networking teams all manage different identities with no shared tooling or policy. The result is inconsistent security posture.
Short-lived certificate pressure
- As certificate lifetimes shorten — now 90 days for public TLS — the operational burden of manual management grows rapidly.
OT device sprawl
- Industrial devices often have long operational lifetimes and limited update mechanisms, making certificate management a unique challenge in OT environments.
Secrets mixed with identities
- API keys, SSH keys, and passwords are often treated as identities but managed separately — creating blind spots in your overall machine identity posture.
Three ways to engage
Professional Services
Hands-on deployment and integration of machine identity platforms — including CLM tooling, PKI integration, and workload identity for cloud-native and OT environments.
Managed Services
Ongoing operations for your machine identity programme — monitoring certificate health, managing renewals, responding to anomalies, and keeping your identity estate in a known-good state.
Consulting Services
Machine identity strategy, programme design, tooling selection, and governance frameworks. We help you understand the scope of your challenge and build a roadmap to address it.
Get visibility into your machine identity estate
Whether you're starting from scratch or modernising a fragmented environment, our specialists can help you take stock of your machine identities and build a sustainable management programme.
