Discovery
Identify attack surface
Simeio Identity Orchestrator (IO) shows where access is actually happening, across every SaaS app, cloud platform, and on-prem system, by continuously uncovering the applications and infrastructure in your environment.
Directory
Why IAM programs have blind spots.
Most identity programs only govern what they can see. The gap between what’s known and what’s actually running quietly undermines every access review, audit, and control built on top of it, until Discovery surfaces it.
Shadow IT & unknown apps
Employees adopt SaaS tools and cloud services outside IT’s line of sight. IAM ends up governing only a fraction of real access; the rest sits invisible, unaudited, and unprotected.
Fragmented, siloed data
App and account data is scattered across directories, IGA, PAM, and cloud consoles. There’s no single source of truth, so identity teams make decisions from partial, conflicting pictures.
Stale, point-in-time inventories
Manual surveys and spreadsheets capture the environment once. The inventory is out of date the moment it’s finished, hiding new apps and access paths for months.
No ownership, no prioritization
Nobody is accountable for many apps, and risk isn’t ranked. Access reviews stall, certifications get rubber-stamped, and the highest-risk exposures go unaddressed.
One inventory. Continuously updated.
Simeio IO pulls from your authoritative sources in real time, maps every application and owner, and automatically risk-scores each asset by confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Not a one-time project. An automated process.
Simeio IO turns application inventory into an interactive, risk-driven view of every identity-linked asset, governed, secured, and audit-ready at all times.
The Old Way
Apps go untracked outside IT’s visibility
Data scattered across directories, IGA, PAM, cloud consoles
Inventories go stale the moment they’re finished
No owner, no risk ranking
With Simeio IO
Continuously surfaces every application, sanctioned or not, from SSO, network, and endpoint signals
Unifies every source into one living record
Updates in real time as new access appears
Assigns an owner and a risk score to every app
One connected view – complete visibility
Discovery brings together your known and unknown applications and infrastructure from multiple sources into one centralized view.
SaaS applications
Sanctioned and shadow SaaS across the business.
- Federated & SSO-connected apps
- Directly authenticated logins
- Shadow IT discovery
Cloud infrastructure
Accounts, workloads, and services across every cloud.
- AWS, Azure & Google Cloud
- IaaS & PaaS entitlements
- Privileged & service accounts
On-prem & directories
Legacy systems and the directories that anchor identity.
- Active Directory & LDAP
- Databases & servers
- Mainframe & legacy apps
Full-stack observability.
Measurable outcomes.
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Access points
inventoried
View across cloud
& on-prem
Zero
Ungoverned blind
spots
Frequently asked questions
What should CISOs look for in an application inventory solution?
Prioritize automated, continuous discovery that surfaces shadow IT across cloud, on-prem, and SaaS, not a stale manual list, plus risk scoring by confidentiality, integrity, and availability to focus on the highest-risk assets. Ensure it assigns owners automatically and integrates with internal authoritative sources to keep every app governed and audit-ready.
How does application inventory reduce audit findings and costs?
A complete, continuously governed inventory closes the visibility and ownership gaps that typically generate audit findings. When every app is discovered, risk-scored, and assigned an owner, compliance evidence is easier to produce, and manual tracking overhead drops. The result is streamlined audits and lower access management costs.
What is shadow IT, and why is it a risk?
Shadow IT is applications and systems used across an organization without the knowledge or approval of IT and security teams. It’s risky because unmanaged apps escape identity controls, governance, and monitoring, creating blind spots that attackers exploit and auditors fine you for. Detecting and bringing these assets under management is a core reason enterprises build application inventories.
What does it mean to risk-score an application?
Risk-scoring an application means evaluating its security, compliance, and operational exposure to assign a quantifiable risk level. This typically considers factors such as vulnerabilities, access privileges, regulatory requirements, and business criticality. The score helps organizations prioritize remediation, strengthen controls, and allocate resources to risks with a projected severe impact on applications first.
Why does assigning application owners matter?
Every application needs a clear owner accountable for its access decisions, control enforcement, and lifecycle governance. Without assigned ownership, apps drift into an unmanaged state where no one is responsible for reviews or remediation. Automatic owner assignment ensures the right people stay engaged in governing each asset.
Why is a one-time application inventory not enough?
Because application environments change constantly, a manual, point-in-time inventory is outdated almost as soon as it’s finished. Effective inventories are dynamic and continuously updated, so every new or retired app is captured in real time. This shifts inventory from a periodic project into an always-current, automated process.
How does Simeio Identity Orchestrator (IO) build and maintain an application inventory?
Simeio IO builds an application inventory by automatically discovering apps in your internal environments and mapping them into a central catalog. It keeps this inventory continuously updated as configurations change, ensuring accurate visibility, governance, and compliance.
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