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Active Directory

BalkanID for Active Directory

Active Directory is the identity backbone of most enterprises. It is also one of the most under-governed. Nested groups, inherited access, privilege creep, and a role model that no longer reflects how the organization actually works. BalkanID changes that.
The Challenge

Active Directory access is complex, inherited, and largely invisible.

On-prem AD, hybrid Entra ID, nested group memberships, and federated identities create an access environment that grows in complexity faster than any team can track manually.

Inherited access nobody can see end to end

Nested groups and inherited role memberships mean the effective permissions of any identity are almost impossible to trace without tooling. What a user appears to have access to and what they can actually do are rarely the same thing.

Role sprawl and low role confidence

Role buckets accumulate over time. Many are underutilised. Access combinations exhibit low confidence, meaning the roles that exist no longer reflect how access is actually needed. This creates audit risk, least-privilege failures, and provisioning inconsistency.

Hybrid and federated environments multiply the complexity

On-prem Active Directory, Entra ID, and federated identity providers each maintain their own access model. Without a unified view, identities slip between the cracks and access that should have been removed persists undetected across boundaries.

How BalkanID Solves It

End-to-end Active Directory identity governance. One platform.

BalkanID integrates with on-prem Active Directory, Entra ID, and hybrid environments to bring risk detection, role analysis, access reviews, lifecycle automation, and JITPBAC into a single governed view across all your directory services.

IAM Risk Analyzer

Surface every identity risk in Active Directory, continuously

Reduced attack surface · Findings with recommended remediations

BalkanID continuously scans your AD environment for excessive privileges, stale accounts, MFA gaps, and segregation of duties violations across all identities, human, non-human, and AI agents. Every finding is prioritized by severity and explained with recommended remediations.

  • Continuous scanning across on-prem AD, Entra ID, and hybrid configurations
  • Findings across users, service accounts, groups, and other entities
  • SoD violations detected and explained with recommended remediations
  • MFA posture and other critical access risks flagged by severity
RBAC Analyzer

Understand your current AD role state, and the path to your ideal state

Least privilege enforced · Role sprawl identified and resolved

BalkanID models your entire Active Directory role structure, scores each role for risk, and identifies where role design, utilisation, and confidence can be improved. Birthright roles based on organization, department, and manager are analysed against actual access patterns. What-if analysis shows the impact of changes before you make them.

  • Role Risk Factor per AD group and role, highlighting underutilised and over-permissioned roles
  • Birthright access analysis, organization, department, and manager-based roles evaluated against peer data
  • Confidence scores showing how consistently role holders actually share the same profile
  • What-if modelling, understand the impact of role changes before enforcement
  • Ideal state view, the delta between current role design and least-privilege target, with a path to close it
User Access Reviews

Access reviews across every AD identity, with full context for approvers

Audit-ready evidence · Informed decisions, not guesswork

Run access certifications for human and non-human identities across your entire Active Directory environment, including inherited access through nested groups and ABAC-driven entitlements. Approvers see last used date, risk score, peer comparison, and recommended action. Not a flat group membership export.

  • Connected reviews, AD and Entra ID synced continuously
  • Inherited access reviews, surface what nested group memberships actually grant
  • Non-human identity reviews, service accounts, managed service accounts, and computer objects
  • Evidence generated automatically, no manual assembly before audit windows
Lifecycle Management & JML Playbooks

Right AD access on day one. Removed the day they leave.

Zero orphaned AD accounts · No residual group memberships

Automate every Joiner, Mover, and Leaver event connected to your HRIS and Active Directory. New hires get birthright group memberships based on peer analysis of colleagues with the same role, department, and manager. Role changes trigger an atomic recalculation. Leavers have all AD access revoked and accounts disabled immediately, with full audit evidence.

  • Joiner, birthright AD group memberships provisioned on day one via peer analysis
  • Mover, access delta recalculated and applied atomically on any attribute change
  • Leaver, AD account disabled and all group memberships removed immediately on termination
  • Full audit trail for every provisioning and deprovisioning action in AD
JITPBAC & Non-Human Identity Governance

Eliminate standing AD access. Govern every identity type.

No standing privilege · Service accounts and machines governed

Replace persistent group memberships and admin rights with just-in-time, purpose-based access grants that are time-bound, approved, and automatically revoked. For non-human identities, service accounts, managed service accounts, and computer objects, BalkanID provides full discovery, risk scoring, and lifecycle governance.

  • JITPBAC, elevated AD access granted for a defined window then automatically revoked
  • No lateral movement risk, a compromised account has no persistent privileged group membership
  • Service account discovery and governance, every account risk-scored and owner-assigned
  • Continuous monitoring across on-prem AD, Entra ID, and federated systems

Every AD identity. On-prem and hybrid. Always governed.

BalkanID gives your team a live, continuously updated view of Active Directory identity risk, including inherited access, role confidence gaps, and service accounts that no longer serve an active purpose.

  • Inherited access through nested groups fully resolved and risk-scored
  • Segregation of duties violations detected and explained with recommended remediations
  • MFA posture across identities, and other critical access risks flagged by severity
  • Service accounts, managed service accounts, and non-human identities fully discovered and governed
Business outcomes

Least privilege enforced

Role sprawl identified and a clear path from current state to ideal RBAC state, with confidence scores to validate the model. SoD violations detected and remediated continuously.

Smallest possible blast radius

JITPBAC eliminates standing privileged group memberships. A compromised account has no persistent foothold in your AD environment.

Audit-ready evidence, always

Access review evidence and provisioning records generated from live AD data, not assembled manually before every compliance window.

Automated Joiner, Mover, and Leaver

Onboard, offboard, and manage employee transitions with fully automated lifecycle management workflows, with full audit evidence at every step.

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