This blog was originally published here. For every enterprise CISO in the world right now, the burning question isn’t about cloud, TPRM, or internal threats. It’s about how to securely and responsibly adopt AI—specifically, agentic AI, the buzziest of today’s AI buzzwords. There’s no shortage of stats on skyrocketing adoption trends. Consider EY’s recent Technology Pulse Poll,…
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The Rise of Agentic AI Security
Here at IDSA, we have the pleasure of hosting the second annual NHIcon by member company Aembit. You will hear more from us on this as we get into the new year. For now, let’s give you a sneak peek of some of what you will see at NHIcon 2026 on January 27, 2026. For…
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Self Assessment: Modern Access Management Maturity
To conclude this 5 part series on the importance of comprehensive and deliberate NHI governance, we are pleased to share this self assessment framework to help organizations understand where they are in their access management maturity journey. In case you missed it, here’s what we’ve covered so far: 1. Outnumbered and underprotected: the hidden risk…
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Close the NHI Governance Gap
We’ve spent the better part of the last decade tightening our grip on workforce authentication. SSO is widespread. MFA is table stakes. Access reviews, offboarding workflows, and role-based policies are now standard practice. It took time and iteration, but we got there. Now it’s time to apply that same rigor to machine identities. The service…
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Start Governing NHIs by Managing Access, Not Credentials
This is part 3 in our series on non-human identity (NHI) governance. In this post, we focus on one of the most persistent risks in production infrastructure: static credentials and standing privilege. Static credentials are still at large in most environments and many enable dangerously over-permissioned and under-governed access to sensitive systems and data. API…
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Beyond Humans: Governing Machine Identity Access at Scale
In organizations today, every identity—human or machine—is a potential pivot point in an attack. Most progress in identity security has focused on authenticating people: SSO, MFA, admin lockdowns, automated provisioning. Important steps, but they only address half the identities accessing your systems. The other half—machines like CI/CD pipelines, service accounts, automation tools, AI agents, and…
