Activity or verification signals suggest review is needed.
Accounts
Accounts represent privileged identities associated with managed resources. They support access, rotation, reconciliation, or verification depending on the resource type.
Ownership is unclear, slowing remediation and access review.
Credential lifecycle no longer matches policy expectation.
Observed state may not match inventory reality.
Account Categories
Section titled “Account Categories”Common categories include managed accounts, reconcile accounts, discovered accounts, break-glass accounts, service accounts, and temporary or brokered session identities. Keep naming explicit so operators understand the account purpose and expected lifecycle.
Stewardship
Section titled “Stewardship”Account records connect resource ownership, policy expectations, rotation posture, verification state, reconcile relationships, and audit history. Stewardship should make it obvious who is responsible for the account and what Anchor expects to be true about it.
Hygiene Signals
Section titled “Hygiene Signals”Review stale accounts, missing owners, failed verification, overdue rotation, policy mismatches, and standing access that could be replaced by just-in-time workflows.
Account hygiene is one of the places Anchor should feel different from legacy PAM. Instead of treating account cleanup as a periodic spreadsheet exercise, Anchor keeps stale access, missing coverage, failed checks, drift, and unclear ownership visible inside the operating model.
Verification, Rotation, and Reconcile
Section titled “Verification, Rotation, and Reconcile”Verification asks whether the account or credential state still works as expected. Rotation changes managed credential material according to policy. Reconcile brings mismatched target state back into alignment through a controlled recovery path.
Each workflow should produce job steps, logs, audit context, and posture signals that reviewers can follow later.
Safety
Section titled “Safety”Do not use production administrator accounts for early testing. Create lab accounts with limited blast radius and documented cleanup steps.