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25/06/2026 2:35 pm
TL;DR: Governance of human and non-human access across applications, data, and business processes is emerging as a core platform theme, according to Saviynt. The larger implication is that identity teams are being pushed to treat NHI governance as a first-class programme, not a bolt-on control layer.
NHIMG editorial — based on content published by Saviynt: the company’s latest newsroom and platform framing around identity governance
By the numbers:
- Over 100 million identities protected, and counting!
- 96% of organisations store secrets outside of secrets managers in vulnerable locations including code, config files, and CI/CD tools.
Questions worth separating out
Q: How should teams govern human and non-human identities in one programme?
A: Treat humans and non-human identities as separate identity types governed by the same control principles: ownership, scope, lifecycle, and review.
Q: When does just-in-time access create more risk than it reduces?
A: JIT creates more risk when access can be reactivated repeatedly without meaningful review, when approvals are weak, or when machine workflows can trigger elevation automatically.
Q: What do security teams get wrong about AI-agent identity governance?
A: Teams often assume that adding authentication is enough.
Practitioner guidance
- Define one ownership model for all identities Assign a named human owner to every service account, token, certificate, and AI-agent credential so lifecycle decisions are not implicit.
- Separate elevation from permanence Use just-in-time access for privileged workflows only where activation, expiry, and audit logging are enforced end to end.
- Inventory AI-agent tool paths before they scale Document which tools, APIs, and datasets an agent can reach, then verify that each path has a business owner, approval rule, and monitoring hook.
What's in the full article
Saviynt's full news coverage covers the operational detail this post intentionally leaves for the source:
- The specific platform areas tied to human identity, NHI, and AI-agent governance
- The product and solution names that sit behind the newsroom framing
- The organisation's own positioning on identity security, compliance, and access governance
- The broader company context around its latest developments and market messaging
👉 Read Saviynt’s latest newsroom coverage on human and non-human identity governance →
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25/06/2026 3:43 pm
Non-human identity is no longer a side category in identity governance. Saviynt’s framing reflects a broader market shift: organisations are being forced to govern service accounts, tokens, and AI-adjacent access with the same seriousness they apply to workforce identities. The discipline fails when machine identities are treated as implementation detail rather than governed identities in their own right. Practitioners should assume NHI now sits inside the core identity control plane, not outside it.
A few things that frame the scale:
- Only 1.5 out of 10 organisations are highly confident in their ability to secure NHIs, compared to nearly 1 in 4 for securing human identities, according to The State of Non-Human Identity Security.
- Only 5.7% of organisations have full visibility into their service accounts, according to the Ultimate Guide to NHIs.
A question worth separating out:
Q: How do access reviews need to change for service accounts and workload identities?
A: Access reviews for non-human identities should verify current business purpose, owner, expiration, and downstream dependencies rather than using the same evidence set as human recertification. Service accounts often outlive the process they were created for, so reviews must look for orphaned credentials and unnecessary privilege, not just stale usernames.
👉 Read our full editorial: Saviynt’s identity platform framing for human and NHI governance
