AI & NHI Impact Day 2026 Blog

Non-human identities can outnumber human accounts by 20 to 90 times, and many exist for seconds. That volatility breaks traditional governance and turns long-lived API keys into high-value impersonation targets. Strong cloud-native trust shifts to attested workload identity, short-lived credentials, and explicit authorization. Agentic AI raises the stakes further by adding delegated authority and decision-making workloads, demanding traceable chains of “who acted, for whom, and with what permiss