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Non-human identity management (NHIM) is the governance and security of machine, application, and service identities through standardized authentication, authorization and lifecycle controls. These identities often have elevated privileges, making them prime targets for exploitation, especially when left unmanaged. Effective NHIM reduces risk, strengthens compliance and ensures operational resilience. KuppingerCole notes:“One Identity solutions address all major NHIs.

If you work in IT for a medium-sized regulated business, you already know the truth: Your Microsoft environment didn’t become sprawling overnight. It grew through mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, reorganizations and the natural evolution of a business that’s constantly adapting. Every new business unit brought its own domain. Every acquisition added another tenant. Every project introduced new accounts, groups and privileges.

Security teams have spent years building visibility into unsanctioned SaaS apps, cloud services, and other forms of shadow IT. But shadow AI raises the bar. Discovering an unsanctioned AI app or autonomous agent is only the beginning. Teams also need to determine which identities it authenticates with, what credentials and permissions it relies on, what data it can access, which systems it integrates with, and what downstream actions it performs. The scale of the challenge is already becoming apparent.

Safeguard 9.0 by One Identity is now available, built around three things privileged access teams care about most: less infrastructure to manage, a stronger case to bring to auditors, and coverage that reaches further into the systems your teams already rely on. Here's what's new.

Non-human identities (NHIs) are not new. We have run service accounts, scripts and machine credentials for years. What changed is the population. Every automation project and every AI investment adds more of them, and they now sit in the foreground of the security conversation, versus the background. You have probably seen the ratios in every deck on the topic. One hundred NHIs per human. Two hundred to one. Pick a number. The point in this session was that the exact ratio does not matter much anymore.

Every year, higher education hits the same beats. New students show up in the fall, ready to begin their undergraduate career. Staff and faculty come and go on their own timelines, some tenured for decades and others moving on after a single semester. Every spring, graduates ring in a new chapter, crossing the stage after years of hard-won achievements. Then there’s visiting researchers and affiliated partners, collaborating all throughout the academic year.