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The Non-Human & AI Identity Journal – Edition 67

Welcome to the latest edition of our Non-Human & AI Identity Journal, where we cover:

• The NHI & AI Summit – Secure By Design
• Our pick from our Non-Human & AI Identity Forum
• Recent Breaches and Security Incidents
• Upcoming Events, Webinars, Industry Announcements
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🎙 NHI Mgmt Group At Identiverse

NHI Summit Session: Secure By Design

NHI Summit Session: Secure By Design

AI agents are transitioning from experimental phases to real enterprise environments, necessitating built-in identity and security controls throughout the development lifecycle. In this session from the NHI & AI Identity Summit at Identiverse 2026, industry leaders like Jesse Minor, Shashwat Sehgal, Henrique Teixeira, and David Chan discuss securing AI agents by design. Topics include agent discovery, delegation chains, and policy controls, emphasising the convergence of workforce, customer, and Non-Human Identities.

Watch the session here. Catch up on all sessions from the NHI Summit here and join the conversation shaping the future of NHI security.

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🚨 Recent NHI & Identity Security Breaches

Canvas/Instructure Data Breach: ShinyHunters Exploits LMS Platform to Expose Millions of Student Records

In late April and May 2026, Instructure — the company behind Canvas, the learning management system used by 41% of US higher education institutions — disclosed a data breach that exposed names, email addresses, student ID numbers, and private messages belonging to users across thousands of education…

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💬 NHI & AI Identity Forum

Our suggested reading for this week from our forum — with over 19,600 articles about NHIs, including Agentic AI.

From MCP Tool Filtering to Runtime Access Control — P0 Security
Securing Coding Agents Across Your Team — GitGuardian
What Cross-Application Risk Actually Looks Like — Saviynt
The Most Important AI Meeting You’ll Have This Quarter Costs Nothing — C1.ai
From Slack Request to Governed Grant: How Opal and Risotto Make Access Self-Serve — Opal Security
Identity Security in Civil Aviation: The Attack Surface Hiding Behind Trusted Access — Unosecur
We Had 13 Engineers Spend Three Months Finding Vulnerabilities with LLMs — Teleport
Operational Technology Cybersecurity Controls (OTCC) — Arcon
Not All Just-in-Time Access Is Created Equal: Why JIT Architecture Matters — Akeyless
The Ultimate IT Offboarding Checklist and Template — Clarity Security
Nexis Included in the New KuppingerCole Analysts Leadership 2026 — Nexis
Why Legacy IAM Fails — Newcore
Recovery and Fallback Playbook: Phishing-Resistant Account Recovery — Scramble ID
How 30 Years of Privileged Identity is About to Change — Venice.io
Leaver for AI Agents: You Fired the AI. Did It Actually Leave? — Opnova
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🏴 Latest Industry Announcements

Teleport — Identity Everywhere: Bringing Infrastructure Identity to Agentic IT
Opal Security — New in Opal: Paladin, Access Campaigns, and OpalScript hit GA
C1.ai — Launch Week Roundup: The Agentic Control Plane
Venice.io — Venice integrates with the Claude Compliance API to bring every Claude identity under just-in-time access
Oleria Security — MTX Group and Oleria partner to modernize identity governance
Descope — The Descope MCP Server Is Available On Claude and ChatGPT
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📅 Upcoming Events & Webinars

Conference

Innovate Fall 2026 – Scottsdale

5 Oct 2026

By GitGuardian

Webinar

Let Identity Contribute to Your Security

7 Oct 2026

By Nexis

Conference

SecureWorld Atlanta, GA

24 Sep 2026

By P0 Security

Webinar

How to Secure Entra ID Workload Identities

8 Sep 2026

By Semperis

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