NIST Flags Non-Human Identity (NHI) Gaps in Zero Trust: How to Address Them with Astrix Security

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The latest NIST Special Publication 800-207, the cornerstone for Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) guidance, highlights a significant blind spot—Non-Human Identities (NHIs), also known as Non-Person Entities (NPEs). As AI agents, service accounts, API keys, and OAuth apps proliferate, NIST acknowledges that authenticating, managing, and auditing these NHIs in a Zero Trust model remains an open challenge.

Financial institutions, SaaS providers, and cloud-first enterprises must address this gap now to maintain compliance and security. Key issues include authentication complexities, unclear access governance, missing audit trails, and the risk of compromised machine identities.

Astrix Security bridges this gap by providing:

• Continuous discovery and inventory of all NHIs across cloud, SaaS, and on-prem systems.

• Contextual posture management to enforce least privilege access for NHIs.

• Real-time anomaly detection to identify misuse of service accounts, tokens, and API keys.

• Automated governance workflows for lifecycle management, policy enforcement, and audit readiness.

With Astrix, organizations can operationalize Zero Trust for NHIs, securing one of the largest—and most overlooked—attack surfaces in modern IT environments.