Welcome to the latest edition of our Non-Human & AI Identity Journal, where we cover:
- The NHI & AI Summit – Secure By Design
- Our pick from our Non-Human & AI Identity Forum
- Recent Breaches and Security Incidents
- Upcoming Events, Webinars, Industry Announcements
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NHI Summit Session: Secure By Design
AI agents are transitioning from experimental phases to real enterprise environments, necessitating built-in identity and security controls throughout the development lifecycle. In this session from the NHI & AI Identity Summit at Identiverse 2026, industry leaders like Jesse Minor, Shashwat Sehgal, Henrique Teixeira, and David Chan discuss securing AI agents by design. Topics include agent discovery, delegation chains, and policy controls, emphasising the convergence of workforce, customer, and Non-Human Identities.
Watch the session here. Catch up on all sessions from the NHI Summit here and join the conversation shaping the future of NHI security.
Recent NHI & Identity Security Breaches
Canvas/Instructure Data Breach: ShinyHunters Exploits LMS Platform to Expose Millions of Student Records
In late April and May 2026, Instructure — the company behind Canvas, the learning management system used by 41% of US higher education institutions — disclosed a data breach that exposed names, email addresses, student ID numbers, and private messages belonging to users across thousands of education
Non-Human and AI Identity Forum Posts
Our suggested reading for this week from our forum — with over 19,600 articles about NHIs, including Agentic AI.
- From MCP Tool Filtering to Runtime Access Control — P0 Security
- Securing Coding Agents Across Your Team — GitGuardian
- What Cross-Application Risk Actually Looks Like — Saviynt
- The Most Important AI Meeting You’ll Have This Quarter Costs Nothing — C1.ai
- From Slack Request to Governed Grant: How Opal and Risotto Make Access Self-Serve — Opal Security
- Identity Security in Civil Aviation: The Attack Surface Hiding Behind Trusted Access — Unosecur
- We Had 13 Engineers Spend Three Months Finding Vulnerabilities with LLMs — Teleport
- Operational Technology Cybersecurity Controls (OTCC) — Arcon
- Not All Just-in-Time Access Is Created Equal: Why JIT Architecture Matters — Akeyless
- The Ultimate IT Offboarding Checklist and Template — Clarity Security
- Nexis Included in the New KuppingerCole Analysts Leadership 2026 — Nexis
- Why Legacy IAM Fails — Newcore
- Recovery and Fallback Playbook: Phishing-Resistant Account Recovery — Scramble ID
- How 30 Years of Privileged Identity is About to Change — Venice.io
- Leaver for AI Agents: You Fired the AI. Did It Actually Leave? — Opnova
Latest Industry Announcements
Major updates shaping the NHI and identity security space this week:
- Teleport — Identity Everywhere: Bringing Infrastructure Identity to Agentic IT
- Opal Security — New in Opal: Paladin, Access Campaigns, and OpalScript hit GA
- C1.ai — Launch Week Roundup: The Agentic Control Plane
- Venice.io — Venice integrates with the Claude Compliance API to bring every Claude identity under just-in-time access
- Oleria Security — MTX Group and Oleria partner to modernize identity governance
- Descope — The Descope MCP Server Is Available On Claude and ChatGPT
Upcoming Events and Webinars
To support your learning journey, here are key events happening across the industry. They feature experts discussing the latest challenges and innovations in identity security:
- Innovate Fall 2026 – Scottsdale — 2026-10-05 — by GitGuardian
- Let Identity Contribute to Your Security — 2026-10-07 — by Nexis
- SecureWorld Atlanta, GA — 2026-09-24 — by P0 Security
- How to Secure Entra ID Workload Identities — 2026-09-08 — by Semperis
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