#non-human identity
9 stories taggednon-human identity.
Your AI Coding Bots Are Running Unsupervised and Nobody Knows What They Did Last Night
AI agents inside software development teams can write, test, and deploy code on their own, often with no human checking what they did. Most companies have no way to answer a simple question: who authorised that change?
AI Agents Are Taking Over Enterprise Systems. Nobody Knows Who They Are.
A four-hour outage. A room full of people who couldn't say which human authorized the last action. A new six-stage model explains why AI agents are breaking identity security, and what it takes to fix it.
AI Agents Need Passports, Not Passwords
As companies hand more decisions to autonomous AI agents, the old rules about who gets access to what are breaking down. Here is what needs to change, and why it matters to everyone.
Cisco Spends Around $400 Million to Plug a Growing Security Blind Spot: AI Agents
Two rapid-fire acquisitions — Astrix Security and WideField Security — are Cisco's answer to a question most companies haven't thought to ask: who's watching the bots?
IGA Was Built for Employees. Agents Break the Model.
Identity governance assumes a hire date, a manager, and an exit interview. Autonomous AI agents have none of those — and legacy IGA tools can't see the gap.
Shadow AI Is an IAM Problem Now, Not a DLP Problem
The risk isn't what employees paste into ChatGPT. It's what tokens, scopes, and service accounts the AI agents they spin up are quietly holding.
SailPoint to Buy Entro Security for a Reported $200 Million
The acquisition adds non-human identity and secrets management to SailPoint's governance platform — a gap that's become increasingly hard to ignore.
$7M Says Autonomous Agents Can Fix the Identity Sprawl Problem
Offroad exits stealth with a bet that AI-driven security agents can manage what platform teams stopped being able to track manually — machine identities, third-party app permissions, and the rest of the non-human identity mess.
AI Agent Identities Are Redrawing Enterprise IAM Budgets
New Omdia research finds that the rapid spread of AI agent deployments is forcing organisations to treat non-human identities as a distinct governance category, with budget implications that traditional identity and access management frameworks were not designed to absorb.