Your AI agents have access. Do you know what they can do?
Agentic AI and workload identities are multiplying across enterprise environments without governance controls. Modern 42 provides dashboards and observability across your application identity estate, quantifies the risk, and builds the governance frameworks to manage it.
Your fastest-growing attack surface has no controls
Every AI agent, automation pipeline, and SaaS integration authenticates as an application identity. These identities accumulate over years of project work, proof-of-concept deployments, and vendor integrations. Permissions are granted at creation and rarely reviewed. Owners leave the organisation. Credentials expire or, worse, never expire. Most organisations have no visibility into what these identities can access, who created them, or whether they are still needed.
Agentic AI risk
With the rise of agentic AI, the problem is accelerating. Copilot agents, custom AI assistants, and autonomous workflow bots are being provisioned with broad permissions to access production data, send emails, and modify configurations. Most have no approval workflow, no expiry, and no audit trail.
Common findings
- Over-privileged applications with excessive Graph permissions
- High-privileged dormant applications with no recent sign-in activity
- AI agents with broad data access and no approval workflow
- Ownerless service principals with no accountability
- Client secrets with multi-year or no expiry
- Applications excluded from Conditional Access policies
- No inventory of what non-human identities exist
of enterprise applications will include agentic AI by 2028, up from less than 1% in 2024. Most organisations have no governance framework for these identities.
Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2025 // Gartner, October 2024
Eight domains of application identity risk
Each domain is assessed using data extracted directly from your Microsoft Entra ID tenant. We quantify the risk, identify the gaps, and prioritise what to fix first.
App registrations and service principals
Inventory of all application identities, ownership status, credential hygiene, and lifecycle management. Identifies orphaned and ownerless applications.
API permissions and OAuth consent
Analysis of delegated and application-level Microsoft Graph permissions. Identifies over-privileged grants, admin consent status, and unused permissions.
Legacy configurations
Detection of legacy authentication patterns including OAuth 1.0, legacy service principals for SharePoint, outdated credential-based authentication, and workloads that should be migrated to managed identities.
Agentic AI and Copilot permissions
Mapping of AI agent identities, their permission scope, data access patterns, and governance controls. Identifies agents operating without oversight or approval workflows.
Secret and credential management
Certificate and client secret expiry tracking, rotation practices, and Key Vault adoption. Identifies credentials approaching expiry or with excessively long validity periods.
Application lifecycle and ownership
Owner assignment coverage, stale application detection, and decommissioning processes. Identifies applications with no assigned owner or no sign-in activity.
Insecure configurations
Identifies applications without App Role assignment requirements, missing Asset IDs, overly permissioned service principals, applications not enforcing token binding, and workload identities excluded from Conditional Access policies.
Cross-tenant and external access
Multi-tenant application configurations, external identity provider trust, and B2B collaboration controls for workload identities.
Visibility. Risk scores. A governance framework.
The assessment delivers three things: a clear picture of your current state, a quantified risk profile, and a practical framework for managing application identities into the future.
Dashboards and visibility
Using Apporetum, we surface every application identity in your tenant: app registrations, service principals, managed identities, and AI agents. You see what exists, who owns it, what it can access, and whether its credentials are current.
Risk quantification
We score each application identity against permission scope, credential hygiene, ownership status, and policy coverage. The result is a prioritised risk register that tells you exactly where to focus remediation effort.
Governance framework
Beyond the assessment, we build a governance framework for managing application identities into the future: approval workflows, permission standards, lifecycle policies, and review cadences tailored to your organisation.
Engineering pathway
For organisations ready to operationalise governance at scale, our engineering team delivers deterministic, configuration-driven application onboarding pipelines. These enable self-service within guardrails, enforce standards automatically, and provide backup and recovery for critical application configurations.
What you receive
A structured report with findings, risk scores, and a governance framework you can implement immediately.
- Complete inventory of application identities, service principals, and managed identities
- Permission analysis with over-privilege scoring for each identity
- Agentic AI and Copilot agent mapping with governance gap analysis
- Credential hygiene report (expiry, rotation, Key Vault adoption)
- Prioritised remediation roadmap with 30/60/90-day milestones
- Application identity governance framework with approval workflows and lifecycle policies
- Executive summary suitable for board, CISO, and audit reporting
- Actionable best-practice recommendations to improve your security posture
- Single pane of glass for visibility and reporting across your application identity estate
Common questions
Govern your application identities
Start with visibility. The assessment gives you the baseline, the risk profile, and the framework to take control of your non-human identity estate.
