Non-Human IAM Insights and News

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Industry Insights

Key Takeaways on Non-Human Identity Security from Gartner’s PAM Report

Gartner’s 2025 PAM Magic Quadrant names machines a core market concern. That shift changes the map for NHI security and workload IAM.

Kevin Sapp

Industry Insights

SSO vs. Federated Identity Management: A Guide

Managing digital identities for both human and nonhuman users is a central challenge for modern organizations spanning SaaS and clouds.

Industry Insights

Non-Human Identity Security vs. Service Account Management: What’s the Difference?

The concept of nonhuman identity is gaining traction fast, sparking new debate over how it differs from managing service accounts.

Apurva Davé

Best Practices

Managing Encryption Keys vs. Access Keys

Modern infrastructure depends on keys: encryption and access. They’re not the same, and treating them the same quietly introduces risk.

Dan Kaplan

Best Practices

8 Workload Authentication Methods for Nonhuman Identities

Every workload that calls an API has to prove it belongs. How that proof gets exchanged shapes the blast radius of any credential leak.

Victor Ronin

7 min read

Product Updates

Analyze AI Agent Access: Introducing the Aembit MCP Server

Teams can query workload identity data in plain language, investigate activity, and move faster without leaving the Aembit platform.

4 min read

Best Practices

API Keys vs. JWTs: Choosing the Right Auth Method for Your API

A developer needs to connect a service to an API. The documentation says to generate an API key, store it in an environment variable and pass it in a header. Five minutes later, the integration works.

Best Practices

MCP Threat Modeling: Understanding the Attack Surface

AI agents are no longer just chatbots. They’re executing multistep workflows across tools and data sources, and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) standardizes these interactions.

Apurva Davé

Best Practices

Zero Trust for Nonhuman Workload Access: A Primer

Zero trust has reshaped how organizations secure user access. Multifactor authentication, single sign-on and continuous posture checks are now standard for human identities. But the same rigor rarely extends to the nonhuman side of the house.

Apurva Davé

Industry Insights

Credential and Secrets Theft: Insights from the 2025 Verizon Data Breach Report

Stolen credentials remain the most common way attackers get in. The 2025 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, covering more than 22,000 security incidents and 12,000 confirmed breaches, makes the case plainly: credential abuse was the leading initial access vector for the second consecutive year.

Dan Kaplan

Best Practices

Moving Beyond Static Credentials in Cloud-Native Environments

Static credentials, like hardcoded API keys and embedded passwords, have long been a fixture of how workloads authenticate. But in distributed, cloud-native environments where services constantly spin up and down, these long-lived secrets have become a growing source of risk, operational friction and compliance failure.