Securing the AI Era: Privileged Access Management for Non-Human Identities

In 2026, non-human identities (NHIs)—especially autonomous AI agents—outnumber humans 144:1 and grow 44% yearly. These always-on entities often hold persistent, over-privileged access that traditional PAM cannot secure at scale.

Modern PAM must evolve with full discovery, zero standing privileges, just-in-time access, ruthless least privilege, secrets vaulting/rotation, behavioral monitoring, and AI-specific controls. Organizations that treat AI agents as first-class privileged identities will avoid tomorrow’s breaches

those that don’t, won’t.

Attendees Will Learn:

The growth of Non-Human Identity risk.
The gaps in traditional Privileged Access Managers
How these gaps are being addressed.

Who Should Attend:

Anyone responsible for identity security, AI deployment, cloud infrastructure, or risk/compliance in an organization using (or planning to use) AI agents will walk away with clear, actionable insights.

The Panelists

Jeff Hughes

North America Sales Engineering

Jeff Hughes is on the Solutions Architect team at Kron, where he assists customers with implementation and strategy for KronPAM, a next-generation Privileged Access Management platform purpose-built for securing routers, switches, firewalls, application delivery controllers, and other critical network infrastructure. With over 20 years of hands-on cybersecurity and networking experience, his aim is help customers to extend identity-first security principles across hybrid and legacy infrastructure. His mission is to help organizations move beyond perimeter-based controls by embedding identity, policy, and accountability into every session, starting at the network layer.