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  1. Close the NHI Governance Gap

    October 23rd, 2025 by Vaughn-Shane Camarda | Posted in News, Perspective, Research |

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    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…

  2. Identity and Access Management and Identity Governance Explained

    October 22nd, 2025 by Vaughn-Shane Camarda | Posted in Best Practices, Perspective, Security Outcomes |

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    Mitigating identity-related access risks is critical as organizations face evolving threats daily. As businesses shift to multi-cloud and hybrid environments, identity sprawl such as shadow IT and unmanaged SaaS apps has become a top attack vector. Identity and access management (IAM) and identity governance and administration (IGA) must now secure identities beyond corporate perimeters, spanning AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and SaaS platforms…

  3. Start Governing NHIs by Managing Access, Not Credentials

    October 16th, 2025 by Vaughn-Shane Camarda | Posted in News, Perspective, Research |

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    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…

  4. Beyond Humans: Governing Machine Identity Access at Scale

    October 9th, 2025 by Vaughn-Shane Camarda | Posted in News, Perspective, Research |

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    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…

  5. Rethinking IAM with Intent: Identity Governance in the Age of AI

  6. Outnumbered and Underprotected: The Hidden Risk of Non-Human Identities

    October 2nd, 2025 by Vaughn-Shane Camarda | Posted in News, Perspective, Research |

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    Most security teams have focused their identity governance efforts on managing human access. You’ve got SSO in place. MFA is enforced. There’s a reasonably consistent process for onboarding and offboarding employees. You probably run access reviews on a quarterly basis and, if you’re further along, maybe you’ve deployed a PAM solution to protect privileged user…

  7. 5 Reasons Disconnected Apps Are An Enterprise Risk You Can No Longer Ignore

    September 30th, 2025 by Vaughn-Shane Camarda | Posted in Best Practices, News, Perspective, Research |

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    Companies of every size depend on Identity and Access Management (IAM), Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), and Privileged Access Management (PAM) to secure logins, enforce policies, and meet compliance requirements. These platforms are the backbone of modern identity security. But there’s a problem: they can only secure what they connect to. The apps that don’t…

  8. How Convergent Identity-Based Security Reduces Risk, Increases Efficiency

    August 26th, 2025 by Vaughn-Shane Camarda | Posted in Best Practices, News, Perspective, Research |

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    This blog was originally published by Bravura Security here.   In an era where 80% of data breaches involve compromised credentials and privilege escalation, traditional identity and access management (IAM) and privileged access management solutions (PAM) solutions are falling behind. While organizations have invested millions in layered implementations rooted in traditional enterprise approaches, these solutions…

  9. Non-Human Identities: The unseen workforce driving AI-era security

    August 19th, 2025 by Vaughn-Shane Camarda | Posted in Best Practices, Perspective, Research |

    This blog was originally published by iDMig here. Non-human identities (NHIs) are front and center Throughout the conferences I’ve attended, and those I had the privilege to present in 2024 and 2025, one key takeaway from all is the explosive growth of non-human identities. These identities have been around for decades to be sure, primarily…

  10. Why You Should Say Goodbye to Manual Identity Processes

    August 6th, 2025 by Vaughn-Shane Camarda | Posted in Best Practices, Perspective, Research |

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    As revealed in Cerby’s 2025 Identity Automation Gap Report, 46% of security and IT leaders say their organization has already experienced a security, compliance, or operational issue directly caused by manual identity workflow execution. Why do manual identity workflows continue to exist, when the consequences of getting them wrong are so serious and when automation…

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