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How To Create an MCP Server To Connect Your App With LLMs

You can stand up an MCP server in minutes, but controlling how it authenticates and what it can access is where the real work begins.

Aembit Engineering

Apr 2026

8 min read

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

Apr 2026

6 min read

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.

Ashur Kanoon

Apr 2026

6 min read

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

Apr 2026

5 min read

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

Apr 2026

7 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.

Ashur Kanoon

Apr 2026

5 min read

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

Apr 2026

6 min read

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

Apr 2026

6 min read

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.

Ashur Kanoon

Apr 2026

5 min read