Over the last few years, security leaders have learned a hard truth: you can’t govern what you can’t see and you can’t act confidently on what you don’t trust. That’s the gap Identity Visibility & Intelligence Platforms (IVIP) were created to fill: a robust, analytics-driven visibility layer across identity programs that consolidates data, surfaces risk, and turns insight into repeatable outcomes.
Helios was built for exactly this mission.
Why IVIP now?
Most organizations already run capable tools for provisioning, authentication, and privileged access. The problem isn’t the lack of controls, it’s the lack of a consistent, trustworthy picture of identities, relationships, configuration, usage, and posture across those controls. Without that picture, teams spend time reconciling exports, debating “whose data is right,” and chasing incidents without context.
An IVIP addresses this by:
- Consolidating identity-relevant data from multiple sources,
- Improving quality through normalization and lineage,
- Analyzing relationships and events to reveal risk and drift,
- Publishing the insights to people and systems that need them.
The Helios approach
(Identify. Normalize. Visualize.)
Identify — We catalog sources and flows, ingesting identity-relevant data (accounts, entitlements, relationships, device posture, usage signals, policy results). Everything is registered in a data catalog so you know what you have, where it comes from, and who depends on it.
Normalize — Helios builds combined, aggregated information models where attributes are cleansed and standardized in real time. We preserve lineage (source + transformation) so data is explainable. This is the difference between “another dashboard” and a source of truth teams can rely on.
Visualize — We expose an interactive “single view” with graph-centric analysis of users, groups, roles, applications, systems, and devices. Thresholds and anomaly lenses highlight toxic combinations, orphaned relationships, policy drift, and posture regressions. Reports can be exported on a schedule or triggered by events.
What you can do with Helios as your IVIP layer
1) See the whole picture, not slices
Unify identity data, activity signals, configuration, and posture in one place—kept fresh by event-driven updates. No more reconciliation projects; no more week-old snapshots.
2) Find what matters, fast
Graph-centric views map the real-world relationships that govern access. Spot risky chains (e.g., stale ownership → broad group → sensitive app), devices out of policy in sensitive segments, and usage anomalies that don’t show up in siloed tools.
3) Improve control quality
Use governance workflows on security-critical attributes (role ownership, risk flags, classification) to reduce configuration drift. Thresholds and alerts ensure exceptions are handled consistently.
4) Reduce audit effort
With lineage and full audit trails (“who changed what, when, and where it flowed”), evidence packs fall out naturally: posture trends, exception handling, approvals, and reconciliations—ready for reviewers.
What makes Helios different
- Data catalog & lineage by design
Every attribute has provenance. Analysts can trace a number on a dashboard back to its source and transformation steps. - Real-time normalization
Attributes are cleansed and standardized as data flows in, not as a quarterly clean-up. The result: higher-quality analytics and fewer policy exceptions. - Graph-centric insights
Access is about relationships. Helios models users, groups, apps, systems, devices, and findings as a graph so you can ask—and answer—questions that tabular exports can’t. - Governance that sticks
Approval steps before risky updates, role ownership checks, scheduled reviews, and consistent exception handling help keep posture from drifting between audits. - Reporting your stakeholders actually use
From exec-ready posture summaries to deep relationship analyses, Helios can distribute reports on a schedule or when thresholds are crossed.
Common IVIP use cases we see
- Identity hygiene
Eliminate orphaned accounts, duplicate identities, stale group memberships, and mis-owned roles. Track the improvements month over month. - Toxic combinations
Reveal privilege paths and risky intersections (e.g., high-impact access on a non-compliant device, or an abandoned admin group linked to sensitive data). - Program KPIs
Run your identity program with real metrics: coverage (% of sources mapped), freshness (event-to-insight latency), data quality score, exception rates, toxic-combo count, remediation velocity. - Audit & compliance evidence
Generate evidence packs with lineage, approvals, and trend lines that map to your controls—no manual collation required.
Architecture at a glance
Helios is a modular, container-based platform. Satellites ingest from your chosen sources (on-prem, cloud, SaaS), push into the Helios normalization layer, and publish to:
- Interactive single-view & graph analysis
- Thresholds/alerts and scheduled reports
- APIs for downstream consumers (governance, analytics, access)
Because Helios focuses on information governance, it complements your existing stack rather than replacing it.
Final thought
“More controls” isn’t the answer; better visibility and intelligence are. Helios turns scattered identity data into a single, trustworthy information layer—so your teams can see clearly, act confidently, and prove it. If you’d like the one-pager or a demo tailored to your environment, we’re ready.
