Super proud that Merritt Maxim at Forrester called out that NHIs overshadowed AI at Identiverse and specifically called out the NHI Workshop and NHI Pavilion our NHI Mgmt Group hosted.
Great to see our mission to educate and evangelise about NHIs is getting major recognition from one of the leading global research and advisory firms.
Summary below and link to the full post here :
“Protecting NHIs is as critical as securing AI. My expectation at Identiverse was agentic AI would be everywhere. While there was ample AI and agentic content, it was overshadowed by non-human identities (NHI) content. While my colleague Geoff Cairns and I prefer machine identities over NHI, I am using NHI in this blog for simplicity’s sake. From the opening NHI workshop to the NHI Pavilion on the exhibit floor to other breakout sessions, you couldn’t escape NHI at Identiverse! This hype is driven by two factors: 1) the rapid increase in the number of NHIs (e.g. service accounts, API keys, secrets, and certificates and now ephemeral cloud workloads, and agentic); and 2) the increase in attacks against NHIs because of their elevated, often excessive, privileges. Many vendors are quickly working to address NHIs and organizations need to prioritize this and look to analytics and automation for governing NHIs going forward.”
