Non-Human Identities (NHI): Why They Matter in the Age of AI

Traditionally, identity referred to a human user, such as an employee, partner, or customer, and all security strategies were focused on them. Today, with enterprises accelerating their adoption of AI, automation, cloud services,and third-party integration, this definition of identity is no longer valid. The software, such as APIs, bots, AI agents, machine identities,IoT and OT convergence, and service accounts in the modern systems, act independently by leveraging digital identity or non-human