Nlyte: Federal Data Center AI Governance

1. The Federal Evidence Problem

Federal data centers face a convergence of mandates that did not exist five years ago. FISMA requires documented identity governance. Executive Order 14028 mandates zero trust architecture, including for service accounts. Executive Order 14110 requires AI governance controls. And DCOI still requires energy optimization reporting. Each mandate has its own reporting chain, its own assessor, and its own evidence requirements.

The common thread across all four mandates is accountability evidence. Who provisioned that service account? When was the API key last rotated? How many hardware assets are in the facility today versus last quarter? These are not hard questions to answer inside your DCIM. They are hard questions to answer with evidence that an independent assessor can verify.

What Nlyte Provides

Nlyte Software provides data center infrastructure management (DCIM) for enterprise and government environments. It tracks physical assets, power chains, cooling capacity, and network connectivity across racks, rows, rooms, and entire facilities.

Nlyte is used across Department of Defense, civilian agencies, and intelligence community facilities. It supports DCOI (Data Center Optimization Initiative) reporting and provides a REST API for integration with ITSM and compliance tools. Nlyte holds FedRAMP authorization.

Key capabilities relevant to compliance:

• Physical asset inventory -- every server, switch, UPS, and PDU tracked by location, owner, and lifecycle state
• Power monitoring -- real-time and historical power usage effectiveness (PUE) at the facility and zone level
• Service account management -- API keys, integration credentials, and automated workflow identities used to operate the DCIM platform itself
• Supply chain provenance -- vendor, origin, and procurement records for physical components
• REST API -- programmatic access to all asset, power, and identity data for downstream integration

2. What SWT3 Records

3. How It Works

A single Nlyte DCIM deployment generates events across two witness domains: the physical layer (assets, power, supply chain) and the identity layer (service accounts, API keys, certificates). SWT3 records both layers independently.

Physical asset changes (HBOM) and identity governance events (NHI) are separate anchor chains, but both reference the same facility context. This dual-layer approach maps directly to NIST 800-53 control families:

• CM-8 (System Component Inventory) -- HBOM-INV.1 anchors
• IA-4 / IA-5 (Identifier and Authenticator Management) -- NHI-CYCLE.1, NHI-ROTATE.1 anchors
• AC-6 (Least Privilege) -- NHI-SCOPE.1, NHI-PRIV.1 anchors
• PE-14 (Environmental Controls) -- HBOM-PUE.1 anchors
• SA-12 (Supply Chain Protection) -- HBOM-SUPPLY.1 anchors

4. Procedures in Detail

from swt3_ai import Witness

witness = Witness(
    endpoint="https://sovereign.tenova.io",
    api_key="axm_live_...",
    tenant_id="YOUR_TENANT"
)

# When Nlyte provisions a new service account
witness.witness_nhi_lifecycle(
    event_type="issued",
    credential_id="svc-nlyte-api-dc1",
    issuer="iam.agency.gov"
)

import { Witness } from '@tenova/swt3-ai';

const witness = new Witness({
    endpoint: 'https://sovereign.tenova.io',
    apiKey: 'axm_live_...',
    tenantId: 'YOUR_TENANT'
});

await witness.witnessNhiLifecycle({
    eventType: 'issued',
    credentialId: 'svc-nlyte-api-dc1',
    issuer: 'iam.agency.gov'
});

witness.witness_nhi_scope(
    credential_id="svc-nlyte-api-dc1",
    scope="read:assets,read:power",
    ttl_seconds=86400
)

await witness.witnessNhiScope({
    credentialId: 'svc-nlyte-api-dc1',
    scope: 'read:assets,read:power',
    ttlSeconds: 86400
});

witness.witness_nhi_rotation(
    old_credential_id="svc-nlyte-api-dc1-v3",
    new_credential_id="svc-nlyte-api-dc1-v4",
    reason="scheduled"
)

await witness.witnessNhiRotation({
    oldCredentialId: 'svc-nlyte-api-dc1-v3',
    newCredentialId: 'svc-nlyte-api-dc1-v4',
    reason: 'scheduled'
});

witness.witness_hardware_inventory(
    component_count=1247,
    manifest_hash="a3f8c2...",
    delta_from_baseline=3
)

await witness.witnessHardwareInventory({
    componentCount: 1247,
    manifestHash: 'a3f8c2...',
    deltaFromBaseline: 3
});

5. Quick Reference for Assessors

6. Getting Started

Install the SDK for your language:

# Python
pip install swt3-ai

# TypeScript / Node.js
npm install @tenova/swt3-ai

Initialize the witness, point it at your Nlyte DCIM event stream, and every lifecycle transition, scope change, rotation, and inventory delta produces an independent, cryptographically anchored evidence artifact.

Both SDKs support demo mode (omit the API key) for local evaluation. Witness records log to stderr with no network calls. When you are ready for persistent evidence, create a free account and set the API key.

• SDK documentation -- Python, TypeScript, and 8 additional languages
• Create a free account -- instant tenant provisioning, API key on screen
• Anchor Verifier -- independently verify any SWT3 Witness Anchor
• UCT Registry -- full procedure catalog with regulatory crosswalks

Regulatory References

• NIST 800-53 Rev 5 -- IA-4 (Identifier Management), IA-5 (Authenticator Management), AC-6 (Least Privilege), CM-8 (System Component Inventory)
• FISMA -- Federal Information Security Modernization Act, continuous monitoring requirements
• DCOI -- Data Center Optimization Initiative, asset and energy reporting
• EO 14028 -- Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity (Zero Trust)
• EO 14110 -- Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy AI (AI Governance)

Related Guides

• Non-Human Identity (NHI) Governance -- full NHI procedure reference
• Data Center Compliance -- HBOM procedures and physical infrastructure witnessing