Sentyn is an ownership-first machine identity security console. It discovers IAM roles, service accounts, tokens, and automation identities read-only, assigns owners with evidence, maps blast radius, and exports audit-ready proof without storing raw secrets.

What problem does Sentyn solve?

Organizations inherit thousands of machine identities with unclear owners, excessive privilege, and no evidence trail for auditors. Sentyn names identities, surfaces unknown owners as findings, and packages proof in the same workflow security teams use to triage risk.

How is Sentyn different from a secrets manager?

Secrets managers store and rotate credentials. Sentyn inventories and governs machine identities across cloud and CI/CD, stores only redacted evidence, and never replaces HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, or CyberArk vault functions.

Which connectors are production-ready?

None are currently claimed as production-ready or live-proven. The executable catalog contains 31 configurable beta providers and 3 demo fixtures. Beta means the setup and pipeline exist; production proof requires a successful real-source sync and provider-specific validation.

Does Sentyn write to cloud providers?

Discovery is read-only by design. Remediation workflows can generate, approve, reject, retest, and roll back plans, but provider writes remain gated behind explicit flags and entitlements rather than running automatically by default.

What evidence does Sentyn export for audits?

Inventory snapshots, ownership status, finding evidence panels, relationship graph metadata, and append-only audit events. Exports are tenant-scoped and redacted.

What is machine identity security?

Machine identity security governs non-human credentials and automation principals: IAM roles, service accounts, API keys, OAuth apps, CI tokens, and workload identities. It covers inventory, ownership, least privilege, blast radius, and lifecycle accountability.

Cloud security, identity engineering, platform security, and GRC teams that need to understand machine identities, accountable owners, access paths, risk, and the evidence behind each decision.

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Landscape

Category landscape: Entro, Oasis, CyberArk

Public positioning summary for buyers comparing NHI platforms, including Sentyn beta boundaries and gated capabilities.

Research narrative by Het Mehta, Research and product narrative. Sources are public competitor reports, vendor documentation, and official incident disclosures.

Sentyn is original software. This section summarizes publicly confirmed competitor positioning for buyer education, not product parity claims.

Entro Security

NHIs, secrets, and AI agent governance with NHIDR behavioral detection and broad non-code discovery.

Public positioning

Unified platform for agents, NHIs, and secrets
Ownership attribution and lineage graph
H1 2025 research on 27M+ NHIs analyzed

Sentyn scope today

Sentyn centers ownership evidence, deterministic findings, access context, review workflows, and audit export. Behavioral detection and remediation surfaces remain beta or gated and are not presented as production controls.

Oasis Security

NHI Security Cloud and Agentic Access Management across hybrid cloud and SaaS.

Public positioning

Inventory, enrichment, ownership, posture, and remediation lifecycle
Agentic access management for intent-based controls
Fortune 1000 scale discovery outcomes in public case studies

Sentyn scope today

Sentyn focuses ownership-first inventory and evidence-led governance. Agent and MCP inventory exists in beta; runtime enforcement is gated and off by default.

CyberArk

Machine identity security platform spanning secrets, certificates, and workload identities, expanded via Venafi.

Public positioning

End-to-end machine identity lifecycle
Secrets Hub for cloud vault aggregation
Public research on machine-to-human identity ratios

Sentyn scope today

Sentyn is not a vault or PAM replacement. We govern discovery, ownership, and audit evidence without storing raw secrets.

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Read-only connect, owner queue, one finding with evidence, audit export sample.

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