# Atomnon

*/Startups/Atomnon*

## Startup Overview

This system continuously ingests cloud usage telemetry to map active access patterns and automatically revoke stale permissions. By monitoring real-time interactions between users, machine identities, and cloud resources, it immediately identifies over-provisioned accounts and dormant access rights.

Cloud security and infrastructure teams struggle with persistent permission creep, where users and service accounts accumulate excessive access that unnecessarily expands the attack surface. Manual IAM audits fail to keep pace with these dynamic environments, leaving broad, unused privileges undetected across the infrastructure.

Unlike platforms such as CyberArk or Okta Identity Governance that rely on periodic reviews and static policies, this approach is fully autonomous and usage-based. The system requires zero manual rule configuration, continuously right-sizing IAM permissions based entirely on observed telemetry rather than human-defined thresholds.

## Startup Founding Hypothesis

**Approach**: that maps and revokes stale cloud permissions via usage telemetry
**Competitors**:
- [CyberArk](/Competitors/CyberArk)
- [Okta Identity Governance](/Competitors/Okta_Identity_Governance)
- [manual IAM audits](/Competitors/manual_IAM_audits)
**Differentiator2x2**: usage-based and fully autonomous, requiring zero manual rule configuration

## Startup Solution Coordinate

**Solution**: [Telemetry Access Engine](/Software/Telemetry_Access_Engine)

## Startup Position2x2

```mermaid
quadrantChart
 title Cloud Permission Revocation
 x-axis Manual Rule Configuration --> Usage-Based Telemetry
 y-axis Human-in-the-loop --> Fully Autonomous
 quadrant-1 Autonomous Telemetry
 quadrant-2 Autonomous Rules
 quadrant-3 Manual Rules
 quadrant-4 Manual Telemetry
 Manual IAM audits: [0.15, 0.10]
 CyberArk: [0.25, 0.35]
 Okta Identity Governance: [0.35, 0.45]
 Atomnon: [0.85, 0.85]
```

## Startup Customer Journey

```mermaid
flowchart LR; A[GitHub Repository] --> B[Read-Only IAM Audit]; B --> C[Excessive Permissions Report]; C --> D[Shadow Mode Deployment]; D --> E[Autonomous Revocation Engine]; E --> F[Multi-Cloud Environment]; F --> G[SOC2 Compliance Evidence];
```

## Startup Proof Points

_Illustrative — target and order-of-magnitude estimate figures, not an achieved track record (this Thing is concept-stage)._

**Pilot Goals**:
- 14-Day Shadow Mode Pilot: Connect read-only cross-account roles to ingest CloudTrail logs in a single AWS staging environment, aiming to identify at least 50 percent of machine roles as over-permissioned without executing any revocations.
- 30-Day Revocation Pilot: Enable autonomous revocation for up to 2,500 cloud identities in a pre-production environment, targeting zero unutilized cloud permissions remaining active beyond the inactivity threshold.
**Target Metrics**:
- Target: 60 percent reduction in standing infrastructure privileges within 14 days of deployment
- Aim: 15 hours recovered per month previously spent on manual IAM access reviews
- Target: 0 unutilized cloud permissions remaining active beyond the configured 30-day inactivity threshold
- Aim: 100 percent of SOC2 IAM audit evidence generated automatically from ingested telemetry logs
**Target Case Studies**:
- A mid-market SaaS provider transitioning from manual engineering access reviews to continuous telemetry ingestion, aiming to pass SOC2 IAM audits using only automated logs.
- A high-growth fintech operating across AWS and GCP, seeking to deploy the 14-day shadow mode to baseline API usage and safely reduce standing machine privileges without breaking production.
- An enterprise infrastructure team seeking to augment their Okta human identity rollout by using Atomnon to specifically govern deep machine-to-machine access via actual API usage telemetry.
**Testimonial Targets**:
- Head of Cloud Security: Validating that the 14-day shadow mode accurately flagged stale permissions and built a reliable usage baseline before any active revocations occurred.
- DevSecOps Lead: Emphasizing the security advantage of using tightly scoped, least-privilege automated runbooks instead of granting broad write-access to a third party.
- Compliance Manager: Expressing relief at passing the access control portion of a SOC2 audit without needing engineers to pull manual IAM reports.

## Startup Top Risks

**Risks**:
- Severity: existential · Description: Cloud platforms like AWS or Azure deprecate or severely rate-limit the usage telemetry APIs that power the revocation engine. · Mitigation Status: unmitigated
- Severity: high · Description: The autonomous engine breaks critical production workloads by automatically revoking permissions for infrequent but necessary disaster recovery service accounts. · Mitigation Status: in-progress
- Severity: high · Description: Incumbents like CyberArk or Okta bundle autonomous telemetry-based revocation into their existing enterprise governance tiers at no additional cost. · Mitigation Status: unmitigated
- Severity: moderate · Description: Security teams refuse to grant the write-access required for autonomous IAM revocation due to strict internal compliance policies. · Mitigation Status: in-progress

## Startup Competitors

- [CyberArk](/Competitors/CyberArk) — Incumbent
- [Okta Identity Governance](/Competitors/Okta_Identity_Governance) — Incumbent
- [Manual IAM Audits](/Competitors/Manual_IAM_Audits) — Status Quo
- [SailPoint Identity Security](/Competitors/SailPoint_Identity_Security) — Legacy Governance
- [Wiz Cloud Entitlements](/Competitors/Wiz_Cloud_Entitlements) — CSPM Incumbent

## Startup Token Bindings

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## Neighborhood

### Candidate solutions

- [Defect Reporting Latency](/Problems/Defect_Reporting_Latency) — candidate solution for · Problems

### What it offers

- [Volumetric Report Service](/Services/Volumetric_Report_Service) — offers · Services
- [Telemetry Access Engine](/Software/Telemetry_Access_Engine) — offers · Software
- [Atomnon Pulse Validator](/Agents/Atomnon_Pulse_Validator) — offers · Agents

### Composed of

- [PAUT Extraction Engine](/Software/PAUT_Extraction_Engine) — composes · Software
- [Volumetric Ingestion API](/Software/Volumetric_Ingestion_API) — composes · Software
- [Certified Turnaround Service](/Services/Certified_Turnaround_Service) — composes · Services
- [Flaw Characterization Agent](/Agents/Flaw_Characterization_Agent) — composes · Agents
- [Code Compliance Agent](/Agents/Code_Compliance_Agent) — composes · Agents
- [Dimension Extraction Worker](/Agents/Dimension_Extraction_Worker) — composes · Agents
- [Anomaly Triage Agent](/Agents/Anomaly_Triage_Agent) — composes · Agents
- [Pulse Validation Service](/Services/Pulse_Validation_Service) — composes · Services
- [Defect Recognition Engine](/Software/Defect_Recognition_Engine) — composes · Software
- [Telemetry Mapping Agent](/Agents/Telemetry_Mapping_Agent) — composes · Agents
- [Access Revocation Service](/Services/Access_Revocation_Service) — composes · Services
- [Cloud Permission Engine](/Agents/Cloud_Permission_Engine) — composes · Agents
- [Policy Telemetry API](/Agents/Policy_Telemetry_API) — composes · Agents
- [IAM Evaluation Agent](/Agents/IAM_Evaluation_Agent) — composes · Agents

### Embodies

- [Service-as-Software](/Theses/Service-as-Software) — embodies · Theses
- [Software](/Theses/Software) — embodies · Theses

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- [Physical SD Card Transport](/Competitors/Physical_SD_Card_Transport) — competes with · Competitors
- [Evident OmniPC Software](/Competitors/Evident_OmniPC_Software) — competes with · Competitors
- [MISTRAS PCMS](/Competitors/MISTRAS_PCMS) — competes with · Competitors
- [Zetec TomoView](/Competitors/Zetec_TomoView) — competes with · Competitors
- [Evident OmniPC](/Competitors/Evident_OmniPC) — competes with · Competitors
- [Manual SD Card Transport](/Competitors/Manual_SD_Card_Transport) — competes with · Competitors
- [MISTRAS PCMS Platform](/Competitors/MISTRAS_PCMS_Platform) — competes with · Competitors
- [SD Card Transport](/Competitors/SD_Card_Transport) — competes with · Competitors
- [manual flaw transcription](/Competitors/manual_flaw_transcription) — competes with · Competitors
- [Physical SD Cards](/Competitors/Physical_SD_Cards) — competes with · Competitors
- [CyberArk](/Competitors/CyberArk) — competes with · Competitors
- [Manual IAM Audits](/Competitors/Manual_IAM_Audits) — competes with · Competitors
- [Wiz Cloud Entitlements](/Competitors/Wiz_Cloud_Entitlements) — competes with · Competitors
- [Okta Identity Governance](/Competitors/Okta_Identity_Governance) — competes with · Competitors
- [SailPoint Identity Security](/Competitors/SailPoint_Identity_Security) — competes with · Competitors

### Who it serves

- [Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) Contractor](/CompanyTypes/Non-Destructive_Testing_(NDT)_Contractor) — serves · CompanyTypes
- [printing workers](/CompanyTypes/printing_workers) — serves · CompanyTypes

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