Non-Human Identity Security for AI Agents: Managing Machine Identities and Access
Artificial Intelligence is introducing a new category of enterprise identity risk. Organizations traditionally designed Identity and Access Management (IAM) around employees, administrators, contractors, and other human users. Modern enterprise environments, however, contain a rapidly growing number of machine identities associated with applications, APIs, service accounts, cloud workloads, automation platforms, bots, and AI agents. These identities are known as Non-Human Identities (NHIs) . As organizations deploy autonomous and semi-autonomous AI agents, Non-Human Identity Security is becoming increasingly important. AI agents need authenticated access to enterprise systems to perform useful work. An agent may retrieve information from a database, interact with a CRM platform, access internal documents, call APIs, use SaaS applications, execute automated workflows, or communicate with other AI systems. Each capability requires some form of identity and authorization. The securit...