Oasis Security Integration with Microsoft Active Directory

We are excited to announce the general availability of the latest enhancements to our platform integration capabilities with Microsoft Active Directory (AD). These improvements are designed to address one of the most common challenges in non-human identity (NHI) security: visibility and lifecycle management of non-human identities on-premise. While cloud environments tend to be the primary source of NHI sprawl, non-human accounts are also widely used on-premises, where they are most commonly managed via Active Directory alongside human accounts. As a result, deep integration with AD has been one of the most common roadmap requests.  

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Integration with MS Active Directory Is Critical for effective NHI Management and Security

AD is a core component of enterprise IT infrastructure and a primary Identity Provider (IdP) in on-premise environments used not only for human IAM, but also for workloads and devices. While AD’s role is critical for effective identity management, security and identity teams consistently struggle to answer basic yet vital questions when it comes to service and system accounts managed in AD:

• Which accounts are actual non-human service accounts?
• Which applications are consuming these service accounts?
• Who owns this service account?
• Does the business need the service account, or can it be decommissioned? (Attestation campaigns)
• What privileges does it have, and are they overly permissive?

Often, the data required to answer these questions exists, but it’s fragmented—buried in spreadsheets, custom-built dashboards and the CMDB - and increasingly inaccurate over time because it needs to be tracked manually. This lack of visibility creates unmanaged risks, operational inefficiencies, and potentially significant security vulnerabilities.

Oasis addresses this challenge by providing a solution that brings all relevant information together, making it accessible and actionable. Oasis eliminates the inaccuracies and overhead of manual processes by monitoring the environment continuously and in real-time. As a result, we give you the ability to have a complete and accurate view at hand, ensuring nothing is missed.

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How Oasis NHI Security Cloud Integrates With MS Active Directory

When it comes to integrating with AD, one size doesn’t fit all. That’s why we offer two distinct integration options to respond to the varying needs of organizations when it comes to AD setup and the level of visibility you want to achieve: 

1. Agentless Integration for Simplicity
   For on-prem environments synced with Azure Entra ID, our agentless option provides a lightweight, easy-to-deploy way to gain immediate visibility without additional infrastructure or complexity. With this integration option you gain:
   • Single pane of glass inventory of service accounts across cloud and on-prem
   • Real time operational context on usage, permissions, consumers and owners of each service account. For example you can easily identify service accounts active in the cloud, but seemingly inactive on-prem, preventing disruptions caused by uninformed deletions.
     

2. Agent-Based Integration for Deep Insights
   For organizations requiring deeper visibility, our agent-based solution adds:
   • Full tracking of accounts not synced with Entra, ensuring that every identity is properly accounted for.
   • Detailed mapping of privileges, such as identifying accounts with domain admin rights, helping to eliminate unnecessary risks.
   • Actionable insights into consumer activity by linking NHIs to their consumers (e.g., IP addresses and machines).
   • Simplified ownership assignment by using on-premises attributes, streamlining the management of unsynced data.

Here’s the best part: our platform adapts to your environment, enabling you to secure NHIs without the need for unnecessary migrations or infrastructure changes.

Outcomes You Can Expect

Picture this: You’re preparing for an audit, and the auditor asks about your service accounts. With Oasis, you won’t need to scramble to pull data from different systems or worry about incomplete answers. Instead, you’ll have clear, actionable insights at your fingertips:

• Every service account, synced and unsynced.
• What it’s doing, who’s using it, and what privileges it has.
• Steps you can take to remediate any risks.

Our integration with AD is just the latest step in our mission to unlock comprehensive and efficient NHI management. In a world where environments span across multiple IaaS providers, SaaS applications and on-premise, it is critical to leverage an NHI Management solution that gives you a single pane of glass regardless of where your NHIs and seamlessly integrates with your infrastructure of choice. 

Oasis doesn’t just provide visibility into your AD environment—we give you the tools to manage it effectively and proactively, enabling better decision-making and stronger security practices. Here are some of the outcomes you can expect:

• Complete visibility, whether a legacy service account or an unsynced on-premises identity, is tracked and secured.
• Identify and manage privileged accounts, stale credentials, and unrotated secrets to reduce risks.
• Visualize identity relationships with consumers, resources, groups, and permissions across AD, policies and integrated applications.
• Automate identity classification, privilege tagging, and ownership assignment for better operations management. 

Ready to see the difference Oasis can make in your Active Directory management? Visit Oasis Security to learn more and get started today.