Platform · Machine Identity Management

Govern every machine identity in your estate.

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Servers, services, containers, and workloads authenticate with certificates and keys. MachineCert discovers, maps, and automates those certificate-based machine identities — the fastest-growing identity type you have.

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The problem

Most of your identities
are machines.

Identity programs were built for humans, but machine identities — largely certificates — now dominate and grow fastest. They need their own management discipline.

Explosive growth

Machine identities multiply with every service and container.

No clear count

Few teams can say how many machine identities they actually have.

Attack surface

Unmanaged machine identities are a real, growing security risk.

Manual can’t scale

Short-lived, high-volume identities demand automation.

How it works

Discover, map,
govern, automate.

1
Discover

Find every certificate-based machine identity across the estate.

2
Map

Tie identities to services, owners, and dependencies.

3
Govern

Enforce policy on crypto, CAs, and lifetimes.

4
Automate

Issue, rotate, and renew identities without humans.

Architecture

Control the machine
identity layer.

Foundation
Discoverevery identity
Map relationshipsTrust Graph
Machine identity controlgovern · automate
Delivers
Identity inventoryevery machine
Reduced riskno orphans
Automated lifecycleissue · rotate
Outcomes

Bring the machine identity
layer under control.

See every identity

A complete inventory of machine identities.

Mapped relationships

Know what each identity connects to.

Reduced attack surface

No unmanaged or orphaned identities.

Automated lifecycle

Issue, rotate, and renew hands-off.

Scales with growth

Handles explosive identity volume.

Policy-governed

Consistent crypto and CA standards.

FAQ

Machine identity,
answered.

It’s the practice of governing the identities of non-human entities — servers, services, containers, and workloads — which authenticate with certificates and keys. It covers discovering, mapping, securing, and automating those identities at scale.
MachineCert discovers every certificate-based machine identity across public, cloud, and internal systems, maps their relationships and ownership through the Machine Trust Graph, enforces policy, and automates issuance, rotation, and renewal.
Unmanaged or expired machine identities create both outage risk and attack surface. Because they outnumber human identities and grow rapidly, losing track of them is a significant, common security gap.
Certificates are the most common form of machine identity. Managing machine identities is largely about managing the certificate lifecycle — discovery, monitoring, and automated renewal.
Zero trust requires every entity to prove its identity. Strong, well-managed machine identities — backed by certificates and mutual TLS — are foundational to a zero-trust architecture.
Yes. MachineCert discovers certificate-based identities across Kubernetes, service meshes, and cloud workloads, unifying them with the rest of the estate.
Shorter certificate lifetimes mean machine identities rotate even more frequently, making automated issuance, rotation, and renewal a hard requirement rather than a nice-to-have.
A footprint scan returns a complete inventory of certificate-based identities in about 60 seconds, with mapping and automation enabled from there.
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Related capabilities

Machine identity managementThe concept, explained.Machine Trust GraphMap identity relationships.Certificate discoveryFind every identity.Lifecycle managementManage the full lifecycle.Policy enforcementGovern crypto and CAs.Renewal automationIssue, rotate, renew hands-off.
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Take control of machine identity.

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