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BalkanID is a modern identity security and governance platform that provides continuous visibility into identities, access, and risk across cloud, SaaS, and on-prem environments. Unlike traditional IGA tools that focus mainly on periodic compliance reviews, BalkanID emphasizes real-time discovery, risk detection, and automated governance.
BalkanID aims to help organizations understand and control identity access across all systems. Its core goals are improving identity visibility, reducing identity-related security risk, automating governance processes, and enabling continuous access oversight.
BalkanID supports Zero Trust by continuously monitoring access, enforcing least-privilege policies, identifying excessive permissions, and enabling time-bound or purpose-based access governance.
Customers typically gain better visibility into identity access, reduced security risk from excessive privileges, faster compliance readiness, and more efficient governance operations through automation.
BalkanID discovers identities, accounts, and permissions across enterprise systems and maps them into a unified identity graph. This allows organizations to identify redundant identities, unused accounts, and unnecessary permissions.
The platform simplifies governance tasks through automation, prioritized reviews, and intuitive interfaces, allowing employees and administrators to manage access efficiently without weakening security controls.
BalkanID reduces manual work by automating identity discovery, access reviews, and remediation workflows. Security teams spend less time managing spreadsheets and more time addressing real risks.
BalkanID can operate as a standalone governance platform or complement existing IAM or IGA systems to provide enhanced visibility and modern automation capabilities.
The Identity Graph models relationships between identities, accounts, roles, permissions, and applications. This structure enables deeper analysis of access relationships and identity risks.
BalkanID uses LLMs with Retrieval-Augmented Generation to enable natural language interaction with identity data while retrieving accurate context from the Access Knowledge Graph.
The BalkanID Copilot is an AI assistant that helps analysts explore identity data, investigate access relationships, and quickly identify potential identity risks.
Users can ask questions about identities, permissions, or risks using plain language instead of complex queries, making identity analysis more accessible.
The Access Knowledge Graph connects identity relationships, permissions, and contextual signals in a graph structure, enabling deeper analysis than traditional tabular databases.
The headless architecture allows BalkanID to integrate with existing systems through APIs, enabling organizations to embed identity governance capabilities into their existing workflows.
Graph intelligence analyzes relationships between identities and permissions to reveal indirect access paths, privilege escalation opportunities, and policy violations.
BalkanID continuously collects identity and permission data from connected systems and analyzes it to detect risks, ensuring organizations maintain an up-to-date view of access across environments.
Actionable IAM Risk Detection identifies identity risks and provides guidance for remediation. Examples include orphaned accounts, excessive privileges, dormant accounts, and toxic permission combinations.
BalkanID discovers and tracks machine identities such as service accounts and API tokens, allowing organizations to review, monitor, and govern their access privileges.
BalkanID supports governance for disconnected systems through browser automation, workflow-based reviews, and imported access data when direct integrations are unavailable.
The platform analyzes permissions against defined SoD policies and flags conflicts. Review workflows and remediation actions help resolve these violations.
The Priority Inbox highlights high-risk access items first, helping reviewers focus on the most critical decisions instead of reviewing all permissions equally.
BalkanID analyzes activity and usage patterns to identify inactive accounts that still retain access privileges and flags them for review or remediation.
Autopilot Playbooks are automation workflows that respond to identity events or risks, such as disabling dormant accounts, revoking excessive permissions, or triggering review campaigns.
BalkanID supports governance workflows aligned with frameworks such as SOC 2, SOX, HIPAA, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS.
BalkanID continuously collects governance evidence such as review decisions and remediation actions, ensuring audit documentation is always available.
BalkanID integrates with a wide range of SaaS applications, cloud platforms, directories, and HR systems through built-in connectors and extensible integration frameworks.
Yes. BalkanID can integrate with ITSM platforms such as Jira and ServiceNow to track remediation actions and approval workflows.
BalkanID is designed for hybrid environments and can govern identities and access across cloud services, SaaS platforms, and legacy enterprise systems.
The platform can generate reports such as access review outcomes, identity risk findings, and user access summaries to support compliance audits.
Yes. BalkanID supports integration with enterprise identity providers to enable secure SSO for administrative access.
BalkanID detects risks such as excessive privileges, dormant or zombie accounts, orphaned identities, Segregation of Duties violations, over-permissive roles, unused permissions, and weak authentication configurations.
BalkanID analyzes login activity and usage patterns across systems to identify accounts that remain active but show little or no recent activity.
An SoD violation occurs when a single identity holds conflicting permissions that allow them to perform multiple sensitive actions that should be separated.
The platform compares assigned permissions with observed usage patterns and highlights privileges that are rarely or never used.
BalkanID analyzes identity provider configurations and flags accounts that lack required authentication controls such as multi-factor authentication.
During identity discovery, BalkanID identifies service accounts without clear ownership or associated human identities and flags them for governance review.
BalkanID analyzes cloud IAM policies and identifies permissions that allow unrestricted access across services or resources.
Findings are evaluated based on factors such as privilege sensitivity, access scope, and potential system impact to prioritize high-risk issues.
The platform analyzes role definitions, permission assignments, and user access patterns to understand how roles are currently structured and used.
BalkanID evaluates permission usage data, role membership patterns, and privilege sensitivity to detect roles containing unnecessary access.
By analyzing usage patterns and identity relationships, BalkanID suggests simplified role structures aligned with least-privilege principles.
Usage-based insights compare assigned permissions with actual activity, helping organizations remove unused privileges and prevent role expansion over time.
The platform provides visibility and recommendations that allow incremental improvements to role structures without replacing existing IAM systems.
Role merges are recommendations to consolidate roles with overlapping permissions in order to simplify role management and reduce redundancy.
BalkanID continuously compares actual permission assignments with defined role models to detect when roles diverge from their intended structure.
The platform compares users within similar departments, roles, or teams to identify identities with unusually high or unusual privileges.
The Access Knowledge Graph connects identities, accounts, roles, and permissions in a graph structure, enabling deeper analysis of access relationships.
Administrators can adjust policy thresholds within the platform to align detection rules with organizational governance policies.
The rule engine allows organizations to define custom conditions and policies that trigger risk findings based on their specific security requirements.
Yes. Compliance rules and governance checks can be configured at the tenant or integration level to match organizational policies.
BalkanID uses HR attributes such as department and role to compare identity access patterns and identify deviations from expected access levels.
Permissive Power Evaluation analyzes permissions and ranks them based on their potential impact on sensitive systems or data.
User trust levels are derived from identity attributes, access history, and privilege sensitivity to provide context during risk analysis.
These scores reflect how closely role permissions align with actual usage patterns and the system’s confidence in recommended role optimizations.
Each finding includes recommended actions such as removing permissions, adjusting roles, or triggering governance reviews.
Global filters allow teams to sort and prioritize risks based on severity levels, compliance frameworks, or affected systems.
BalkanID continuously evaluates access relationships and flags conflicts when identities acquire combinations of permissions that violate defined policies.
Lite Analyzer provides baseline visibility into roles and permissions, while Enterprise Analyzer delivers deeper analytics, advanced insights, and optimization recommendations.
The platform simulates proposed role changes to show how permissions and users would be affected before changes are applied.
BalkanID integrates with ITSM platforms to automatically create tickets or workflow tasks for remediation actions.
BalkanID integrates with HR systems to detect new employee records and automatically provisions access to required applications based on predefined lifecycle policies.
HR systems such as Workday, BambooHR, and other supported HRIS platforms can act as authoritative identity sources that trigger lifecycle events.
When an employee departure is detected, BalkanID automatically initiates deprovisioning workflows across connected systems to revoke access and disable associated accounts.
Yes. Offboarding policies can be configured to disable accounts temporarily or permanently delete them based on organizational requirements.
Organizations typically see significant reductions in manual access requests and IT tickets as provisioning and deprovisioning tasks become automated.
Birthright access policies assign default application access automatically based on HR attributes such as department, job role, or location.
BalkanID compares HR records with discovered accounts and flags accounts without valid identity ownership for review or remediation.
Yes. Lifecycle workflows can trigger processes to reassign ownership of applications, files, or resources when a user leaves the organization.
Mover events are typically triggered by HR attribute changes such as department transfers, job title updates, or manager changes.
The platform analyzes existing permissions during role transitions and removes outdated access while assigning new privileges aligned with the updated role.
Organizations can configure the system to automatically remove outdated permissions or trigger targeted access reviews for validation.
BalkanID analyzes peer access patterns and role policies to determine the minimum privileges required for the user’s new responsibilities.
JITPBAC (Just-in-Time Purpose-Based Access Control) grants temporary access for a specific business purpose and automatically revokes it when the task is completed.
Access requests include a defined business justification, which is validated through approval workflows and enforced through time-bound access controls.
Organizations can configure time limits for temporary access, typically ranging from minutes to hours depending on policy requirements.
JIT access privileges are automatically revoked when the approved time window expires or when the associated task is completed.
Yes. The platform can integrate with collaboration tools to allow users to initiate access requests through familiar interfaces.
Yes. Emergency access workflows can be configured to grant temporary elevated access during critical incidents while maintaining full audit logging.
By granting elevated privileges only for short periods and revoking them automatically, JITPBAC significantly reduces the time attackers can exploit compromised accounts.
Single-step workflows require one approver, while multi-tier workflows require approvals from multiple stakeholders before access is granted.
AnswerSmart forms automatically populate relevant identity information and suggest appropriate access options based on user attributes.
Approvers can view contextual information such as peer access patterns, privilege sensitivity, and risk insights before making decisions.
Yes. Approval workflows can be configured to require different approvers depending on the application or access sensitivity.
Delegation policies allow approval responsibilities to be reassigned temporarily to alternate approvers.
BalkanID records detailed audit logs for all lifecycle events, including provisioning actions, approvals, and access revocations.
Yes. The platform supports SCIM-based provisioning for compatible SaaS applications.
The SCIM Proxy Bridge translates provisioning actions into workflows that can manage access for systems that do not support SCIM natively.
Autopilot Playbooks automate lifecycle tasks such as provisioning, revocation, and access reviews, allowing organizations to manage identity governance at scale.
All lifecycle actions and governance decisions are automatically logged, enabling organizations to generate audit evidence without manual tracking.
The Lite version supports basic lifecycle automation, while the Enterprise version includes advanced capabilities such as JIT access workflows and deeper automation controls.
The Access Knowledge Graph maps relationships between identities, applications, roles, and permissions. By analyzing these relationships, BalkanID can identify how access privileges translate into potential operational or security risks.
The AI Copilot uses LLMs with contextual data from the Access Knowledge Graph to interpret natural language queries and return accurate identity insights and risk analysis.
Yes. Administrators can request actions in plain language, and the Copilot can suggest or generate remediation workflows using automation playbooks.
The Identity Graph shows how an identity connects to systems, permissions, and roles, allowing analysts to quickly understand what systems could be affected if an account is compromised.
AI-powered operators interact with systems that lack traditional APIs by automating user interface actions or workflows, enabling governance of applications that cannot be integrated through standard connectors.
The platform restricts LLM interactions to relevant metadata and controlled retrieval contexts, ensuring sensitive identity data remains protected.
Yes. The platform provides contextual explanations for recommendations, including usage insights, risk signals, and policy violations.
BalkanID supports governance for disconnected systems through automation, browser interaction, and workflow-based access reviews.
The Chrome extension allows administrators to interact with application interfaces and automate access review actions when APIs are unavailable.
Windows App Control allows BalkanID to enforce governance policies and monitor access activity for legacy applications that operate outside modern identity integrations.
Headless Operator Mode automates tasks normally performed by administrators by simulating interactions with application interfaces or workflows.
The SCIM Proxy Bridge converts lifecycle actions into workflows that allow provisioning and deprovisioning for systems without native SCIM support.
Yes. The platform can ingest identity and entitlement data through file imports or manual data exports when direct integrations are not possible.
During discovery, BalkanID identifies service accounts, tokens, and automation identities across integrated systems and maps them into the identity graph.
The platform analyzes attributes such as application ownership, activity patterns, and associated teams to recommend responsible owners.
The platform evaluates service principal permissions against usage patterns and privilege sensitivity to identify excessive privileges.
BalkanID can integrate with secret management platforms and enforce governance policies related to credential lifecycle and rotation practices.
AI agents are treated as non-human identities, allowing their permissions and activity to be monitored, reviewed, and governed through the same identity policies.
BalkanID can complement existing IGA platforms by providing enhanced discovery, analytics, and automation while leveraging their provisioning capabilities.
The headless architecture exposes platform capabilities through APIs, allowing organizations to integrate governance workflows into existing systems without changing user interfaces.
External systems can trigger playbooks through API integrations, allowing remediation workflows to be initiated directly from ticketing platforms.
Yes. BalkanID can integrate with secret management tools to monitor and govern machine credentials and access policies.
The platform can ingest and correlate security signals with identity context to improve risk analysis and incident response workflows.
Yes. BalkanID provides REST APIs that allow organizations to build custom integrations and automation scripts.
The platform discovers identities and permissions across multiple cloud environments and analyzes them through a unified identity graph.
The Agentic Playbook Framework orchestrates automated workflows that execute governance actions across multiple systems in sequence.
Yes. BalkanID can assist organizations during IGA transitions by providing visibility and governance during migration phases.
Custom entity reviews allow organizations to include additional resource types in governance workflows beyond traditional identities and roles.
Yes. Organizations can customize branding for the access request portal to align with internal identity workflows.
Developers can use the SDK to integrate BalkanID automation workflows with internal systems and execute playbooks within their existing infrastructure.
BalkanID MCP is a server that connects your AI assistant (such as Claude) directly to the BalkanID identity governance platform. It lets you query identities, action access reviews, manage entitlements, and enforce governance policies using plain conversational language.
Any AI assistant that supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP), including but not limited to Claude Desktop, VS Code, Cursor, custom-built agents, and programmatic MCP clients. The same BalkanID credentials work across all of them.
You can:
Read permission lets you query and view data — identities, campaigns, credentials, requests, constraints. Write permission is required to take action — approving reviews, creating constraints, submitting access requests, delegating campaigns, and triggering syncs. You can issue a read-only API key for monitoring use cases and a write-scoped key for full workflow automation.
BalkanID MCP works across every application connected to your BalkanID tenant — including but not limited to Azure, AWS, Okta, Active Directory, Google Cloud, Salesforce, Slack, GitHub, Custom Apps, and more. Any integration visible in your BalkanID dashboard is accessible through the MCP.
See the official Model Context Protocol documentation at modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/getting-started/intro for a plain-language introduction to how the protocol works.
BalkanID Lite modules typically start around $10,000 per year and provide essential capabilities such as user access reviews and IAM risk insights.
Enterprise deployments typically start around $25,000 per year and scale based on the number of users, applications, and advanced capabilities such as lifecycle automation and AI-driven governance.
A user generally refers to an active human identity, including employees and contractors. Non-human identities such as service accounts can be governed without always counting toward licensed users.
Most standard integrations are included. Custom integrations or specialized automation workflows may require additional configuration depending on complexity.
Pricing scales on a per-user tier basis, allowing organizations to expand coverage as their workforce grows.
Yes. Volume pricing tiers are typically available for large enterprises with higher user counts.
Lifecycle automation can be added as a module on top of the core governance platform and is priced based on the number of users under lifecycle management.
The Access Knowledge Graph and AI Copilot capabilities are included within the platform as part of the intelligence layer.
Yes. BalkanID follows a modular pricing model, allowing organizations to adopt capabilities such as UAR, IAM risk analysis, or lifecycle management independently.
Most enterprise deployments begin with a Proof of Value engagement to validate integrations, risk insights, and governance workflows.
Organizations typically begin seeing value within days or weeks after connecting identity sources and applications.
No. The platform is designed for rapid deployment, though onboarding support is available for complex environments.
Connecting major identity providers usually takes a short configuration process once the required credentials and permissions are available.
Customers typically provide read-only API credentials or service accounts for identity providers, SaaS applications, and cloud platforms.
Pre-built connectors allow administrators to connect systems through guided configuration workflows.
Yes. BalkanID supports an API-first architecture that allows organizations to integrate platform capabilities into existing workflows and automation pipelines.
Disconnected systems can be onboarded using browser automation, file imports, or AI-powered operators that replicate administrative actions.
Enterprise deployments typically include onboarding support and guidance to ensure a smooth rollout.
Minimal effort is typically required. Most integrations involve configuration rather than custom development.
BalkanID can be deployed as a hosted SaaS platform or within a customer-controlled cloud or data center environment depending on security requirements.
Customers receive ongoing technical support, platform guidance, and access to documentation.
Updates and new capabilities are delivered continuously through the platform without requiring manual upgrades.
Enterprise deployments typically include defined service level agreements covering platform availability and response times.
Enterprise customers typically receive customer success support to help ensure successful adoption and ongoing value.
The platform follows enterprise security practices to ensure identity data is securely processed and protected.
No. BalkanID focuses on governance metadata and access relationships rather than storing sensitive credential values.
The platform can run in secure cloud environments or customer-controlled infrastructure depending on compliance requirements.
Lite deployments perform periodic analysis while enterprise deployments support more frequent or continuous identity risk monitoring.
Customers have access to product documentation, integration guides, and operational playbooks to support self-service administration.
Yes. BalkanID can assist organizations transitioning from legacy IGA platforms by providing visibility, discovery, and governance during the migration process.
Administrators can define campaign templates and schedules so user access review campaigns launch automatically at the required cadence, such as quarterly or annually.
Application-wide reviews evaluate access for all users within an application, while targeted reviews focus on specific roles, entitlements, or identity groups.
BalkanID connects to SaaS, cloud, and identity systems through integrations and collects user, role, and entitlement data used to generate review campaigns.
Yes. HRIS integrations ensure employee attributes such as department, manager, and role remain current during review cycles.
Continuous sync keeps identity and access data refreshed automatically so reviews reflect the most recent permissions and role assignments.
Lite users can trigger a manual synchronization to refresh application and identity data before launching a review campaign.
Yes. Campaigns can be configured to run automatically at predefined intervals.
Each campaign instance is tracked separately, allowing organizations to maintain a historical record of review decisions across cycles.
The Priority Inbox highlights access items with higher risk signals such as unused privileges, over-entitlements, or policy violations so reviewers can prioritize critical decisions.
Reviewers see contextual signals such as peer access comparisons, entitlement usage, and login activity to support more informed decisions.
Yes. The review interface displays usage indicators that help reviewers quickly identify inactive or unnecessary permissions.
The platform analyzes usage patterns and access context to suggest whether access should be retained or revoked.
Review responsibilities can be reassigned or delegated so campaigns continue without delays.
What “Multi-Tier” approval workflows are supported (e.g., Manager → App Owner → Security)?
Organizations can configure approval chains involving managers, application owners, security teams, or other designated stakeholders.
Automated reminders notify reviewers of pending tasks and approaching deadlines.
Non-human identities can be included in campaigns and reviewed using the same governance workflows as human identities.
The platform supports review of roles, policies, and permissions across major cloud providers.
Disconnected applications can be governed through imported entitlement data, browser automation, or operator workflows.
Yes. Organizations can extend governance to additional resource types such as application roles, shared resources, or data access objects.
Privileged identities can be flagged and prioritized so reviewers can focus on higher-risk access.
The platform records reviewer actions, timestamps, and justifications so organizations can produce audit-ready reports.
Yes. Reporting can be configured for security teams, compliance officers, and auditors.
BalkanID supports structured access reviews, audit evidence collection, and reporting required by common compliance frameworks.
Revocation decisions can trigger remediation workflows or generate tasks for administrators to remove the access.
Yes. The platform can create tickets or workflow tasks in external systems to track remediation actions.
The platform detects conflicting permissions and alerts reviewers when a combination violates defined SoD policies.
Yes. Administrators can monitor completion rates, pending reviews, and campaign progress from a centralized dashboard.
Reviewer comments and justifications are recorded alongside decisions to provide full audit traceability.
Lite provides essential access review capabilities, while enterprise deployments include advanced automation, continuous data synchronization, and deeper governance analytics.
Lite deployments support a limited number of campaigns per application each quarter, while enterprise deployments provide flexible scheduling and higher campaign capacity.
