Tag: Workload Identity

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

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.

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

Best Practices

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

Not all credentials are created equal. Compare API keys and JWTs across security, scalability, and fit for modern workload authentication.

Ashur Kanoon

Best Practices

MCP Threat Modeling: Understanding the Attack Surface

MCP gives AI agents a common language for action—but also a new attack surface. Here’s how to model threats before they become incidents.

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Zero Trust for Nonhuman Workload Access: A Primer

Zero trust has matured for human users, but most workloads are still running on static secrets. This primer covers the principles to fix that.

Best Practices

Moving Beyond Static Credentials in Cloud-Native Environments

Static credentials were never built for cloud-native environments, and the gaps they leave behind are exactly what attackers count on.

Ashur Kanoon

Industry Insights

Secrets Management vs. Access Management: What You Need to Know

When your team stores API keys in a vault and rotates them on a schedule, it feels like the access problem is handled.

Best Practices

Workload Identity vs. Workload Access Management: Securing Cloud-Native Workloads in a Dynamic Environment

Workload identity proves who a workload is. Workload access management controls what it can do. Learn why separating them is critical for zero trust.

Dan Kaplan