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BalkanID for GitHub

Your source code repositories contain some of the most sensitive assets your organization holds, intellectual property, infrastructure definitions, and secrets. GitHub access is complex, identity-blended, and rarely governed with the rigour it deserves. BalkanID changes that.

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The Challenge

GitHub access is granular, identity-blurred, and rarely governed at scale.

Repository permissions, team memberships, outside collaborators, and GitHub Actions tokens create an access landscape that grows with every new project and is almost impossible to govern manually.

Outside collaborators and personal accounts are hard to track

GitHub identities do not always map cleanly to corporate identities. Contractors, external contributors, and developers using personal accounts accumulate repository access that nobody systematically reviews.

Offboarding leaves repository access behind

When a developer leaves, their IdP account is deprovisioned. But GitHub team memberships and direct repository collaborator grants often remain, leaving live access to source code with no active owner.

GitHub Actions tokens and machine identities are ungoverned

Secrets stored in repositories, GitHub Actions OIDC tokens, and deploy keys grant access to production infrastructure and cloud environments. Most organizations have no systematic governance over their scope or lifecycle.

How BalkanID Solves It

End-to-end GitHub identity governance. Five capabilities. One platform.

BalkanID integrates with GitHub to bring continuous risk detection, role analysis, access reviews, lifecycle automation, and JITPBAC into a single governed view across all your organizations and repositories.

IAM Risk Analyzer

Surface every GitHub access risk continuously

Reduced source code exposure · Findings with recommended remediations

Continuously scan for excessive repository permissions, outside collaborators without business justification, dormant accounts with write access, and segregation of duties violations. Every finding prioritized by severity.

Scan across organizations, teams, repositories, and GitHub Actions workflows
Findings across all identity types, corporate users, outside collaborators, and machine identities
SoD violations detected and explained with recommended remediations
Dormant accounts and unused repository access flagged for review

RBAC Analyzer

Understand who can do what in every repository

Least privilege on source code · Role sprawl eliminated

Model every team membership and direct repository grant, score each for risk, and understand whether access is appropriate for each contributor's role. Confidence scores show whether team members actually share the same repository access profile.

Role Risk Factor per team and direct repository permission grant
Confidence scores for team membership consistency across contributors
Identify over-privileged write or admin access on critical repositories
Ideal state view with path to least-privilege repository access

User Access Reviews

Access reviews for every repository and every contributor

Audit-ready evidence · No manual repository exports

Run access certifications for all GitHub identities across your organizations. Approvers see last commit date, access level, peer comparison, and recommended action. Not a CSV of team memberships.

Connected reviews, GitHub synced in real time
Outside collaborator reviews with corporate identity correlation
Machine identity reviews, deploy keys and GitHub Actions tokens
Evidence generated automatically for audit windows

Lifecycle Management & JML Playbooks

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

Zero residual repository access · Offboarding verified

Automate Joiner, Mover, and Leaver events from your HRIS to GitHub. New engineers get team memberships based on peer analysis. Leavers have all GitHub team memberships and direct collaborator access removed immediately, with downstream repository access verified.

Joiner, correct GitHub team memberships provisioned on day one
Mover, team reassignment applied atomically on role or department change
Leaver, all GitHub access removed and verified immediately on termination
Full audit trail for every GitHub provisioning action

JITPBAC & Non-Human Identity Governance

Eliminate standing write access. Govern every machine identity.

No standing repo write access · GitHub Actions governed

Replace persistent admin and write access to critical repositories with just-in-time, purpose-based grants. For GitHub Actions tokens, deploy keys, and machine identities, full discovery, scope analysis, and continuous governance.

JITPBAC, elevated repository access granted for a defined window then auto-revoked
No standing admin access on production codebases or IaC repositories
GitHub Actions token discovery, every machine identity scope-analysed and owner-assigned
Continuous governance across all GitHub organizations

Every GitHub identity. Every repository. Always governed.

BalkanID gives your team a live view of GitHub access risk across all identities, corporate, external, and machine, and every repository in your organization.

Repository permissions, team memberships, and outside collaborator grants risk-scored continuously
SoD violations in GitHub detected and explained with recommended remediations
Dormant accounts and unused repository access flagged by severity
GitHub Actions tokens and deploy keys fully discovered and governed

Business outcomes

Source code protected

Least privilege on every repository. Critical codebases and IaC repos with no standing admin access.

Smallest blast radius

JITPBAC eliminates standing write access. A compromised account cannot persist changes to production source.

Audit-ready evidence

Access review evidence generated from live GitHub data. No manual repo exports before compliance windows.

Automated Joiner, Mover, and Leaver

Onboard, offboard, and manage transitions with fully automated lifecycle workflows and verified offboarding.

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