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Dan Kaplan

Director of Content Marketing
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Expertise

  • Cybersecurity
  • Identity and access management
  • Non-human identity
  • Workload identity and access management
  • AI agent identity and security
  • Cloud security
  • Security operations
  • Threat detection and response
  • Cybersecurity journalism
  • Content strategy
  • Editorial strategy

About Author

Dan Kaplan is the friendly neighborhood content marketing leader at Aembit. Based in New York but operating remotely, he tells stories about agentic identity, workload identity, and cybersecurity that are meant to educate, inspire and, if he’s lucky, even entertain. Before joining Aembit, Dan held a similar role at Google Cloud, following stints at Siemplify and Trustwave, where he led content initiatives. He planted his roots in cybersecurity as a reporter and editor at SC Media. When he’s not conjuring content, he can usually be found watching sports, advocating for farm animals, or listening to paranormal stories as he falls asleep. Don’t ask.

Education

  • Bachelor’s degree in journalism, Syracuse University, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications

Articles by Dan Kaplan

Catching Rogue Workloads and AI Agents

Anomaly Detection for Non-Human Identities: Catching Rogue Workloads and AI Agents

Traditional security models fail to detect compromised service accounts and non-deterministic AI agents, requiring a shift to layered, identity-aware behavioral monitoring.
Dan Kaplan
Dan Kaplan
Jan 2026
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8 min read
API Keys v OAuth

API Keys vs OAuth: Which API Authentication Method Is More Secure?

API keys offer simplicity, but OAuth provides superior security through automatic expiration and granular scopes.
Dan Kaplan
Dan Kaplan
Jan 2026
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6 min read
Aembit engineer Sebastian working on computers while looking at camera.

When the Vendor Becomes the Customer: Building Internal Tools on an Agentic IAM Platform

A project to improve test visibility meant using Aembit the same way customers do, in a real deployment environment where software runs unattended and requires trusted access to external services.
Dan Kaplan
Dan Kaplan
Jan 2026
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4 min read
A blurred software error message on a computer screen showing an exception response with a visible token value.

CrewAI GitHub Token Exposure Highlights the Growing Risk of Static Credentials in AI Systems

The exposure demonstrates how ordinary errors can reveal internal credentials and how stronger limits on scope and lifespan can contain the impact.
Dan Kaplan
Dan Kaplan
Nov 2025
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3 min read
AI-Agent-Deployment-Patterns

4 Types of AI Agents and What They Mean for Identity Security

These four architectural patterns reveal how AI agents differ fundamentally from traditional workloads.
Dan Kaplan
Dan Kaplan
Nov 2025
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7 min read
Renee Guttmann joins Aembit as adviser.

Veteran CISO and Aembit Adviser Renee Guttmann on Guiding Security into the AI Age

From Coca-Cola to Campbell Soup, Renee Guttmann knows what lasts as security changes.
Dan Kaplan
Dan Kaplan
Nov 2025
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4 min read
Secrets Sprawl is Killing DevOps Speed — Here's How to Fix It

Secrets Sprawl is Killing DevOps Speed – Here’s How to Fix It

Secrets sprawl forces developers into constant rework while leaving organizations exposed to the exact security risks they’re trying to prevent.
Dan Kaplan
Dan Kaplan
Oct 2025
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5 min read
Red Hat GitLab instance breach analysis with thumbnail of code on a laptop.

Red Hat’s GitLab Breach and the Cost of Embedded Credentials

The incident shows how repositories double as inadvertent credential stores, extending risk from vendors into customer environments.
Dan Kaplan
Dan Kaplan
Oct 2025
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3 min read
The Evolution Toward Agentic AI

From Chatbots to Agents: The Evolution Toward Agentic AI

From rule-based chatbots to autonomous agentic AI, we’ve come a long way in past three decades.
Dan Kaplan
Dan Kaplan
Oct 2025
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8 min read
Are you suffering from credentialitis with doctor asking.

We’ve Identified a New IT Ailment. It’s Called Credentialitis – And It’s Spreading Fast

Credentialitis isn’t just a clever name. It’s a real condition plaguing modern IT teams. Dr. Seymour Keys is here to walk you through the symptoms, the screening, and the treatment.
Dan Kaplan
Dan Kaplan
Sep 2025
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2 min read
Businessperson interacting with CRM data.

When Salesforce Becomes a De Facto Credential Repository: Lessons from the Drift OAuth Breach

This malicious campaign demonstrates how long-lived token theft can become the first step in a much broader breach.
Dan Kaplan
Dan Kaplan
Aug 2025
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3 min read
Vault with a warning sign superimposed.

Vault Fault: Secrets Managers and the Limits of Centralized Trust

Recent flaws in Conjur and Vault highlight the risks of concentrating trust in a single repository – and why workload IAM may offer a more resilient path forward.
Dan Kaplan
Dan Kaplan
Aug 2025
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3 min read
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