New Capability: Unified Identity Control Panel - New Views for Machines and Their Human Owners

[kirby_fitch]

Description

Identity Security teams have been asking for a better way to manage the growing number of machine identities and the humans responsible for them. This update brings both together in one unified view, helping teams stay audit ready, reduce risk, and save time chasing down disconnected data.

This post introduces updates to the Identity Control Panel that make it easier to govern machine identities alongside their human counterparts. As the number of machine identities continues to grow, it’s critical to track their accounts, usage, and ownership. The new machine identity view surfaces these details, while the updated human identity panel now shows who’s responsible for what.

New Capabilities

We’ve added a new control panel for machine identities that shows detailed metadata, associated accounts, and audit events. You can now also view ownership links from human identities to machine identities. These additions make it easier to manage both sides of the identity equation with greater clarity and control.

Problem

Identity Security teams struggle to manage machine identities because they are scattered across different systems with limited context. There is no easy way to see which accounts belong to a machine, what it can access, or who is responsible for it. Similarly, human identity systems do not show ownership of machine identities, making it difficult to assign accountability or track relationships between humans and non-human identities.

Solution

Identity Security teams can now use Machine Identity Security’s unified control panel to view key details, associated accounts, and audit events for each machine identity in one place. In the human identity view, they’ll also see a new section that lists any machine accounts the person owns. This creates a connected, more complete picture of identity relationships across the organization.

Machine Identity: Details

Machine Identity: Accounts > List

Machine Identity: Accounts > Update

Human Identity: Ownership > Machine Accounts

Human Identity: Ownership > Machine Accounts > Update

Who is affected?

Customers that have licensed Machine Identity Security.

Important Dates

Sandbox Rollout: Wednesday, April 23.
Production Rollout: Wednesday, April 30.

By RSVP’ing to this event you will be reminded of this release prior.

Action Required

Give the new control panels a try and post about your experiences on this topic.

[BenNelson]

I am not seeing this in our sandbox so I am assuming we do not have it licensed. Any way I can check on that as an org admin?

[kirby_fitch]

Hi Ben,

You might not have licensed Machine Identity Security if you do not see “Machine Identities” as a second option when visiting the “Identities” interface. The best thing to do would be to check with your Customer Success Manager.

[TheOneAMSheriff (Amar Sheriff)]

Thanks @kirby_fitch,

This is a very useful update!

Bringing machine identities and their human owners into a unified control panel is a big step forward for organizations aiming to reduce identity sprawl and strengthen accountability. With the explosion of service accounts, bots, and workload identities, it’s become increasingly difficult to get a clear picture of who owns what and how those machine identities are being used.

The new machine identity view, combined with visibility into ownership mappings from the human identity page will really help streamline audits, enforce least privilege, and ensure orphaned accounts don’t slip through the cracks.

Looking ahead, it would be great to see similar visibility for access certification support for machine identities tied into this model. That could help close the loop between visibility, accountability, and governance.