How to Secure Non-Human Identities in Complex Hybrid, Multi-Cloud, and Agentic AI Environments

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As enterprises adopt complex hybrid-cloud architectures and agentic AI systems, non-human identities (NHIs)—such as service accounts, workload identities, tokens, and autonomous agents—are proliferating uncontrollably. NHIs now account for over 98% of identities in most organizations, yet their management remains fragmented, manual, and largely invisible to traditional IAM solutions.

Legacy identity platforms were not designed to address the scale, dynamism, and AI-driven behaviors that characterize modern IT environments. They struggle to answer fundamental security questions: Who owns this identity? Where was it created? Is it still in use? What happens if I revoke it?

Token Security redefines NHI management by treating identity security as a big data challenge. Its platform ingests, normalizes, and correlates telemetry across cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP), on-prem systems, CI/CD pipelines, secrets managers, and AI workloads. This data is mapped into a visual NHI Risk Graph™, providing full visibility into identity ownership, runtime behavior, permissions, and secrets exposure.

With this unified context, Token Security enables:

• Confident remediation workflows - teams can safely rotate keys, deprovision accounts, and manage AI agents without breaking production systems.

• Automated policy enforcement at scale - through campaigns that address Zero Trust cleanups, shadow AI discovery, and secret sprawl mitigation.

• Developer-friendly integration - with agentless onboarding, API-first architecture, and support for AI-native workloads through MCP servers.

• Safe automation - remediation playbooks are context-aware, reducing operational risk while scaling lifecycle management across dynamic environments.

Token Security bridges the gaps left by legacy IAM, offering the industry’s most comprehensive approach to securing NHIs in cloud-native, AI-powered enterprises. It empowers security, identity, and platform teams to transform NHI chaos into structured governance, enabling proactive, scalable, and risk-aware identity management.