Why are machine identities becoming the majority of “things with access”? Every automation, integration, and workload needs a way to authenticate and the right permissions to act. That quiet requirement has created a massive population of machine identities, also called non-human identities (NHIs): service accounts, service principals, workload roles, OAuth apps, AI agents, and IAM…
Tag: identities
AI, Apps, Compliance, Global Security News
Automating identity lifecycle and security with AWS Directory Service APIs
Managing identities and access across complex environments has become more critical than ever. AWS Directory Service for Managed Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, has added new capabilities to manage users and groups. Now, you can perform create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations on users and groups directly through AWS…
AI, Global Security News
AI Agents Are Shifting Identity Security Budget Dynamics
AI agent projects are proliferating throughout the enterprise, and those AI agent identities require management, security, and governance. New Omdia research shows the AI agent identity budget dynamics are very different than traditional IAM projects.
AI, Global Security News
Shifting Budget Dynamics for Identity Security and AI Agents
AI agent projects are proliferating throughout the enterprise, and those AI agent identities require management, security, and governance. New Omdia research shows the AI agent identity budget dynamics are very different than traditional IAM projects.
AI, Global Security News, Network Security
Machine identities outnumber humans 109 to 1
Organizations manage an average of 109 machine identities for every human identity. AI agents account for a growing share of those identities, with companies expecting AI agent growth of 85% over the next 12 months. Machine identities are projected to increase by 77%, and human identities by 56%, based on data from Palo Alto Networks’…
AI, Apps, Cybersecurity, Global Security News
SHARED INTEL Q&A: PKI’s unfinished business—’digital passports’ for content, models and agents
As if keeping track of machine identities wasn’t hard enough. AI agents are now arriving by the thousands — and most enterprises are just handing them borrowed credentials and hoping for the best. Meanwhile, the cryptographic infrastructure asked to absorb these threats faces a hard regulatory countdown requiring digital certificates — the credentials securing every…
AI, Global Security News
Governance Gaps Emerge as AI Agents Drive 76% Increase in NHIs
SANS Institute reveals that AI agents are behind a 76% surge in non-human identities
Global Security News, Risk Management
AI Agents and Non-Human Identities Creating Critical Security Gaps, Report
New research from Keeper Security, reveals non-human identities and automated system-to-system interactions are becoming the top security risk for businesses in 2026.
AI, Apps, Global Security News
Zluri addresses expanding identity attack surface across SaaS, cloud, and AI
Enterprise identity is undergoing a fundamental shift. Employees are no longer the only identities operating inside organizations. Service accounts, machine identities, application integrations, and AI agents now interact with enterprise systems at scale, accelerating the growth of non-human identities and expanding the identity attack surface across SaaS applications, cloud infrastructure, and on-premises systems. To address…
AI, Global Security News, Government & Policy, Network Security
North Korean IT worker scam nets Ukrainian five-year sentence in the U.S.
A Ukrainian man was sentenced to five years in the U.S. for helping North Korean IT workers use stolen identities to get hired by U.S. firms. Oleksandr “Alexander” Didenko, a 29-year-old Ukrainian national, has been sentenced to five years in a U.S. prison for supporting North Korea’s fraudulent IT worker scheme. Didenko admitted stealing U.S.…
AI, Global Security News, Risk Management
How infostealers turn stolen credentials into real identities
Infostealer dumps increasingly tie stolen credentials to real identities, linking usernames, cookies, and behavior across personal and enterprise accounts. Specops explains how analyzing 90,000 dumps shows reuse fuels enterprise risk and how continuous AD scanning disrupts that cycle. […]