IAM / IAM-06
Secrets and workload identity management
Protecting application keys, tokens and accounts to reduce shared, forgotten or code-embedded secrets.
WHEN IT HELPS
A focused response
to a defined need.
CTO, DevOps or infrastructure; API keys in repositories, long-lived service accounts or risky rotation.
SCOPE & OUTCOMES
What the engagement covers.
Scope
- Inventory and ownership
- vaulting or workload identity
- least privilege, rotation, revocation and logging
Deliverables
- Secret inventory
- scoped integrations
- rotation procedures and continuity tests
Acceptance evidence
Pilot secrets are no longer distributed in plaintext; rotation and revocation are tested with affected applications.
DELIVERY
How the work is structured.
Approach
Inventory identities and applications; define roles and policies; pilot with one group; test allow/deny/recovery paths; roll out and hand over.
Prerequisites & responsibilities
Customer: application owners, HR, administrators, pilot groups and emergency accounts. Provider: design, integration and testing within agreed permissions.
Scope factors
Users, directories, applications, protocols, privileged accounts, compatibility and migration. Licenses, physical keys and recurring operations are separate.
Questions to clarify
Where are secrets stored? Who can read them? What happens when a key is revoked?
IMPORTANT BOUNDARIES
Vault encryption does not fix excessive access; application migration is a major effort driver.
Recovery and emergency access are tested before rollout. Authentication, authorisation and privileged-access management are complementary layers.
IN PRACTICE
Illustrative situations.
These examples describe possible engagements and target outcomes. They are not customer references or achieved results.
Scenario 01
A software vendor stores a production token in Git. Project: carefully revoke it, identify dependencies and move secret handling. Target outcome: a protected replacement and preventive checks; deleting the file alone is insufficient.
Scenario 02
Several applications share one service account. Project: create separate identities and limited permissions. Target outcome: targeted revocation and clear ownership; rotation is tested before rollout.
Technology and reference context
Secret vaults, managed identities or mechanisms supported by the selected cloud and operating environment.
The final technology set is agreed during scoping, based on interoperability, licensing, access rights and operating requirements.
CONNECTED SERVICES
Build the next step.
These services can complement the engagement. They are not automatically included.
START A CONVERSATION
Make the scope clear.
We will clarify the objective, dependencies and responsibilities of this service before proposing delivery.