Govern Every Non-Human Identity
Service accounts, API keys, tokens, machine credentials, and AI agents — every NHI in your enterprise, discovered, governed, and continuously monitored. The fastest-growing attack surface in enterprise security.
The NHI Problem Is Accelerating
Human identities have MFA, SSO, and PAM. Non-human identities have almost nothing — and the gap is widening every time a new AI agent is deployed.
NHIs Outnumber Humans 45:1 — With No Governance
For every human identity in your enterprise, there are 45 non-human identities operating with no equivalent governance, no MFA, and no lifecycle management.
50% of NHI Activity Is Invisible to Existing IAM
Half of credential activity from service accounts, tokens, and agents never appears in traditional IAM logs. The attack surface is large and almost entirely unobserved.
Long-Lived Tokens Are the #1 Lateral Movement Vector
API keys and OAuth tokens that never rotate give adversaries a permanent foothold. One harvested token can provide persistent access across environments for months.
AI Agents Create NHIs Dynamically
Autonomous agents spin up credentials on demand. Traditional discovery runs on schedules — by the time a scan completes, new NHIs have already been created and acted.
Full NHI Governance — Six Core Capabilities
Every non-human identity — agent, service account, token, or machine credential — issued, tracked, governed, and continuously monitored under one control plane.
Continuous NHI Discovery
Scan every environment — cloud, on-prem, SaaS, CI/CD — and build a real-time inventory of every service account, API key, token, machine cert, and AI agent credential. Discovery never stops.
Cryptographic Attestation
Every NHI gets a verifiable credential. Know exactly what each identity is authorized to do, who created it, what it has accessed, and when its authorization expires.
Least-Privilege Enforcement
Automatically detect and remediate over-privileged NHIs. Right-size permissions. Remove standing access. Enforce just-in-time credential issuance with automatic expiry.
Continuous ISPM
Identity Security Posture Management for NHIs. Real-time posture score, drift detection the moment permissions expand or credentials age, and automated remediation recommendations.
Lifecycle Management
Automated rotation, revocation, and expiry for every NHI. No more stale API keys or forgotten service accounts. Revocation executes in under 5 seconds across all connected systems.
AI Agent Governance
KYA (Know Your Agent) extends NHI governance to autonomous AI agents — quantum-safe credentials, full authorization chain, and real-time revocation that reaches every active session.
How NHIs Are Exploited — and How RuntimeAI Stops It
The three most common NHI attack patterns — and the specific controls that block each one.
Stale API Key Compromise
Long-lived API key with no rotation → adversary harvests key from code repository → lateral movement across cloud environments → data exfiltration undetected for months.
Lifecycle Management enforces mandatory rotation policies. Discovery flags any key exceeding the maximum age threshold. Keys beyond policy are automatically revoked and replaced — before they can be harvested.
Over-Privileged Service Account
Service account provisioned with admin rights "just in case" → left dormant for 18 months → account compromised via supply chain → full tenant takeover with legitimate credentials.
Continuous ISPM flags over-privileged accounts in real time. Least-Privilege Enforcement automatically right-sizes permissions. Dormant accounts are suspended after configurable inactivity windows.
Shadow Agent Proliferation
AI agents created outside governed workflows → no audit trail, no identity credential → unknown data access patterns → compliance failure discovered during audit, not before.
Continuous NHI Discovery detects unregistered agents the moment they initiate connections. KYA blocks execution without a verified credential. Every agent action is logged to the immutable Audit Black Box.
Compliance & Standards
NHI governance that satisfies the frameworks your security organization and regulators require.
See Every NHI. Govern Every Agent.
45:1 NHIs per human. 50% invisible to your IAM. The attack surface is here — and it's growing every time a new agent deploys. See how RuntimeAI closes it.