Private cloud environments are dense with non-human activity — service accounts, automated pipelines, internal APIs, and increasingly, AI agents operating across your most sensitive infrastructure. Most organizations have visibility into their compute. Almost none have visibility into the identities driving it.
The challenge
When developers build services, they create non-human identities to connect them. Those identities are rarely scoped to a specific function, rarely reviewed after deployment, and rarely decommissioned when the people who created them move on. In a private cloud environment, that accumulation happens fast and stays hidden.
Add AI agents to the picture and the problem compounds. Agents deployed inside private infrastructure operate with the same NHIs, carry the same risks, and move with a speed and autonomy that makes manual governance impossible. By the time a misconfigured identity is flagged, it’s already been in production for months.
How Entro helps
Entro gives security teams complete visibility into every AI agent and NHI operating inside your private cloud — without sitting inline, without impacting performance, and without requiring a six-month rollout. From detection to response, Entro covers the full lifecycle of every identity in your environment.
- See every identity, not just the ones you provisioned — Entro discovers all NHI types across your private cloud, including service accounts, API tokens, and AI agents that were created, shared, or inherited outside formal processes
- Govern without disrupting operations — Entro enforces security out-of-band, using native controls already in your environment, so governance doesn’t create a performance tax
- Detect and respond in real time — NHIDR monitors agent and NHI behavior continuously, catching anomalies and triggering automated response before an attacker has time to act
- Full lifecycle coverage — every identity tracked from creation through retirement, with ownership attribution and lineage mapped throughout
Discovery and classification in the private cloud
You can’t secure what you don’t know exists. Entro continuously inventories every AI agent, NHI, and secret across your private cloud infrastructure — including identities that have never appeared in any CMDB or access review.
- Comprehensive NHI coverage — discover service accounts, API keys, certificates, tokens, and AI agents across private cloud workloads, containerized environments, and serverless functions
- Shadow identity detection — surface NHIs created outside formal governance processes, shared across teams, or left active after their original purpose ended
- Identity enrichment — every NHI gets a full profile: owner, permissions, connected resources, lineage, and blast radius
- Agent mapping — understand which AI agents are running in your private cloud, what NHIs they rely on, and what they can reach
Posture management and access control
Private cloud environments drift over time. Permissions accumulate, misconfigurations go unnoticed, and identities outlive their purpose. Entro continuously monitors posture and surfaces the risks that matter before they’re exploited.
- Over-permission detection — identify NHIs and agents carrying broader access than their function requires, and right-size without disrupting operations
- Misconfiguration coverage — catch policy gaps in containerized workloads, microservices, and serverless functions where NHIs are created at scale
- Least-privilege enforcement — Agentic Governance Architecture (AGA) continuously scopes access to what each identity actually needs, across every workload
- Lifecycle governance — track every NHI from provisioning through decommission, so no identity persists longer than it should
Detection and response inside the perimeter
Private cloud threats don’t always come from outside. Compromised service accounts, over-privileged agents, and insider activity all look like normal traffic until they don’t. Entro’s behavioral monitoring catches the difference.
- Continuous behavioral monitoring — track agent and NHI activity against established baselines, flagging deviations as they occur
- Anomaly detection — identify unusual access patterns, privilege escalations, and lateral movement inside your private cloud perimeter
- Automated response — integrate with your existing automation tooling to contain threats immediately, without waiting for manual triage
- Human owner escalation — Entro traces every NHI to an accountable owner so remediation doesn’t get stuck waiting for someone to figure out who’s responsible