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Non-Human Identity & AI Security Articles

Articles on securing non-human identities and AI agents — service accounts, API keys, secrets, tokens and machine identities — from NHI Mgmt Group and our partners.

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Governing the Invisible: Closing the NHI Governance Gap in the Age of Agentic AI

Examines the growing NHI governance gap created by traditional identity controls, agentic AI and machine-speed actions, and introduces a five-level maturity model for governing NHIs and AI identities.

NHI Mgmt Group

The Ultimate Guide To Non-Human Identities

A comprehensive guide to non-human identities covering NHI fundamentals, risks, research, lifecycle management, secrets, regulation, standards, the market and the future of NHI security.

NHI Mgmt Group

Human IdPs vs Machine & AI Agent IdPs: Why Identity Has to Evolve

Explains why traditional human identity providers are insufficient for machines and AI agents and why dynamic, scalable identity models are needed for autonomous workloads.

Akeyless

How to Prevent Prompt Injection in AI Agents

Explains how prompt injection attacks can manipulate AI agents through untrusted content and outlines security controls for limiting unintended access and actions.

Teleport

What AI Agents Can Teach Us About NHI Governance

Examines what AI agents can teach organisations about NHI governance, including the need for attributable identities, scoped permissions, short-lived credentials and stronger controls across automated workflows.

GitGuardian

Model Context Protocol (MCP): The Hidden Identity Risk Behind Agentic AI

Explores how MCP changes the identity security model for AI agents by enabling trusted access across tools and systems, creating new risks around authority, context and transitive trust.

Unosecur

Managing AI Agent Lifecycles: From Registration to Retirement

Describes how organisations can manage AI agents throughout their lifecycle, from registration and ownership through entitlement management, governance, integration and secure retirement.

Saviynt

52 Non-Human Identity Breaches

A comprehensive analysis of 52 real-world NHI breaches highlighting how service accounts, API keys, tokens, certificates and secrets are exploited and why stronger NHI governance is needed.

NHI Mgmt Group

NHI Lifecycle Management Guide

Provides a practical framework for managing the NHI lifecycle from secure provisioning and ownership through access management, rotation, certification and decommissioning.

NHI Mgmt Group

Top 10 Non-Human Identity Issues

Highlights ten major NHI management challenges including exposed credentials, incomplete inventories, stale accounts, unclear ownership, excessive privilege and weak lifecycle controls.

NHI Mgmt Group

The Secret Sprawl Challenge

Explores the growing secrets-sprawl problem created by increasingly fragmented cloud, SaaS, legacy, API and AI environments and the resulting risks from unmanaged non-human credentials.

NHI Mgmt Group

Challenges of Rotating Non-Human Identities

Explains why rotating credentials for non-human identities is operationally difficult, covering dependency chains, outages, credential distribution and practical alternatives such as automated secrets management and short-lived credentials.

NHI Mgmt Group
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