Who Actually Owns This Service Account?

When that AWS service account gets compromised, who do you call?

A question that shouldn't be hard.

If you're in security or platform engineering, you already know the answer is usually "I have no idea." Maybe you search through GitHub commit history. Maybe you ping three different Slack channels. Maybe you can check the wiki that hasn't been updated since 2023. And while you're doing all that detective work, the clock is ticking, and the compromised credential is still active.

This isn't a tooling problem or a people problem, it's an accountability problem. Your organization has spent years hardening human identity security. MFA everywhere, least privilege enforcement, and regular access reviews. But machine identities? Those service accounts, API keys, CI/CD tokens, and bot credentials that outnumber your employees by orders of magnitude? Nobody owns them. Nobody's responsible. And when something goes wrong, everyone pays the price.

We provide ownership in GitGuardian NHI Governance to fix this. With automatic owner suggestions pulled from your existing tools and the flexibility to assign accountability however it makes sense for your team.