Linux Identity & Access Management
The Control Plane for Linux Identity
Complete visibility of every identity on your Linux estate.
Most organisations have no single view of who — and what — can do what across their Linux estate. Existing tools were built for endpoints and directories, not the identities living inside production Linux. LinuxGuard makes every one of them known, governed, and continuously assured.
The Linux Identity Control Plane — built where ISPM, ITDR, and IVIP meet.
Most identity security tools manage directories. LinuxGuard manages the Linux layer beneath them — continuously assuring posture, detecting threats, and surfacing intelligence across every human, non-human, and service identity on your estate.
ISPM
Continuous scoring across human accounts, service identities, SSH keys, sudo policies, and PAM configs — 127 posture factors, updated real-time.
ITDR
100 MITRE ATT&CK-mapped signals captured via eBPF, with automated containment — lock, revoke, contain — built for the Linux threat surface, not adapted from it.
IVIP
A Gartner-recognised intelligence layer that maps every identity, relationship, privilege path, and configuration across your Linux estate — and feeds it into your broader IAM stack.
Identity Intelligence
Radical Identity Attack-Surface Reduction
Production Linux is full of identity blind spots — SSH keys unrotated for years, orphaned accounts that outlive their owners, and over-privileged service accounts no one is watching.
Existing tools never map how identities relate — so one stolen low-level credential plus a forgotten sudo rule can become full root in seconds, with nothing in the way.
LinuxGuard maps your whole identity estate into one live view and cuts hidden privilege paths before attackers can exploit them — shrinking blast radius.
How it works
- Privilege Exposure Mapping — See exactly which identities can escalate to root on every server.
- Dormant and At-Risk Accounts — Surface inactive or over-privileged accounts before attackers find them.
- Container Workload Identity — Attribute every escalation and change to the exact container, pod, and namespace.
- Per-Identity Timelines — Reconstruct exactly what any identity did — logins, sudo commands, config changes.
Risk Scoring
Know Exactly Which Accounts Put You at Risk — and Why
Teams inherit thousands of Linux accounts with no way to tell which matter — sudo config, key hygiene, and behaviour all bear on risk, but nothing captures them together.
Without a defensible way to rank exposure, the most dangerous accounts hide in the noise — and every "why is this risky?" question restarts a manual investigation.
LinuxGuard scores every account from 0 to 100, weighing every factor together and explaining itself inline — so your team knows exactly where to focus.
How it works
- Composite Risk Scores (0–100) — Every account scored on sudo config, auth methods, key status, and access patterns.
- Inline Score Explanation — Every score shows the specific factors driving it — no unexplained numbers.
- Fleet-Wide Risk View — Rank all accounts by risk, filtered by server group, team, or environment.
SSH & NHI Posture
Close the Credential Gaps Other Tools Never Look At
SSH keys and non-human identities are the most overlooked access vectors in Linux — keys accumulate without ownership, and service accounts multiply without governance.
Because standard tooling never inventories this layer, weak keys, reused credentials, and ungoverned service accounts persist unseen — each one a standing route in.
LinuxGuard inventories every SSH key and non-human identity continuously — graded for age, strength, reuse, and ownership — so hidden credentials become governed.
How it works
- SSH Key Inventory — Every authorised key on every server — age, algorithm, reuse, and ownership.
- Key Hygiene Grading — Flag weak algorithms, aged keys, and keys shared across accounts or servers.
- NHI Classification and Ownership — Map every service account to its owning team, purpose, and credential age.
Findings & Zero Trust Signals
Turn Raw Noise into Ranked, Attributable Findings
Linux emits a constant stream of raw events — config changes, drift, denials — but events are not findings. Someone still must decide what matters and who did it.
Unranked, unattributed alerts drown real exposure in noise — analysts burn hours reconstructing who did what from scattered logs while what matters sits unactioned.
LinuxGuard surfaces ranked findings mapped to MITRE ATT&CK and attributed to the specific identity responsible — priority, shared language, and context in every finding.
How it works
- MITRE-Mapped Signals — Every finding maps to a MITRE ATT&CK technique for shared prioritisation.
- Configuration Drift Detection — Track changes to sudo, SSH, PAM, and access controls against an approved baseline.
- Identity Attribution — Every finding names the identity behind the change — not just the server.
- SELinux Audit — Continuous SELinux policy analysis — surface denials and weaknesses early.
Automated Response
Resilient, Gated Security Operations
Legacy automation is all-or-nothing — teams are asked to trust a tool to act on production identities with no defined limits, so the safe choice becomes not automating at all.
One auto-isolation on a false positive can take down a payments pipeline — so fear of breaking production leaves fast-moving identity incidents to slow, manual response.
LinuxGuard's safety-gated playbooks act within limits you define — freeze a session or isolate a user with production untouched, auto-rollback included.
How it works
- Safety-Gated Playbooks — Approval thresholds and blast-radius limits gate every automated action.
- Account and Session Controls — Lock accounts, terminate sessions, disable SSH keys, or revoke sudo on demand.
- Auto-Rollback — Reversible actions roll back automatically if conditions change.
- Full Audit Trails — Every action recorded with its trigger, approval, and outcome.
Compliance & Audit
Continuous, Audit-Ready Operational Efficiency
Every quarter — SOC 2, DORA, NIS2 — engineering and security halt real work to log into servers, write scripts, and pull evidence by hand, all for a single point-in-time snapshot.
Weeks of effort buy only a snapshot — leaving gaps exposed for the other 89 days of the quarter, where a failed audit means fines, delayed contracts, and engineering friction.
LinuxGuard makes evidence collection an automated byproduct of operations — always-on posture, immutable audit trail, ready for regulators in minutes.
How it works
- Continuous Framework Scoring — Always-on scoring across major frameworks — never a pre-audit snapshot.
- Per-Identity Compliance Views — See which accounts are out of policy and why.
- Historical Trend Tracking — Show auditors continuous improvement with posture history over time.
- Exportable Audit Evidence — Structured evidence packages for SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIS2, and DORA.
CVE & Vulnerability Management
See What Is Exposed, Where — and Who Can Fix It
Vulnerability data and identity context live in separate worlds — scanners list CVEs with no sense of who can act, while identity tools cannot see what those systems run.
Disconnected from ownership and from the distribution in play, remediation stalls in hand-off — and patches slip while the window of exposure stays open.
LinuxGuard enriches a live package inventory with CVE data — affected-server lists and distribution-aware fixes show what is exposed, where, and who can fix it.
How it works
- Package and Service Inventory — Continuous discovery of every installed package and running service.
- CVE Enrichment — Every package matched against current CVE data — no manual lookups.
- Affected Server Lists — For any CVE, instantly see affected servers and package versions.
- Distribution-Aware Remediation — Fix guidance matched to your exact distribution and package manager.
Integrations
Identity Intelligence Where Your Team Already Works
Your team already lives in a SIEM, a ticketing queue, and collaboration channels — a tool that keeps its intelligence behind yet another login just adds a tab to check.
Findings trapped in a standalone console arrive late or not at all — response slows, tickets are opened by hand, and the richest identity context never reaches where decisions are made.
LinuxGuard pushes identity-centric findings straight into your SIEM, ticketing, and collaboration tools — so identity intelligence lands where the work already happens.
How it works
- SIEM Integration — Forward findings and identity events via webhooks, syslog, or Splunk HEC.
- Ticketing and Collaboration — Auto-create Jira tickets; send alerts to Slack and Teams channels.
- Identity-Centric Dashboard — Cross-filterable identity metrics, privilege drift, and posture trends.
Know every identity. Respond to every risk.
LinuxGuard gives you complete visibility across your Linux estate — immediately, continuously, and completely. Start with a Fixed Fee Pilot and see your full identity posture within a week.