Non-Human Identity Security Explained — The 45:1 NHI Crisis in 2026

Tech Updates di Andres Sarmiento

Note sull'episodio

45 to 1. In the average enterprise, for every human user there are 45 machine identities. Every API key. Every service account. Every agent token. Every secret in every config file. Your IAM platform probably tracks about 2% of them. That's where the breaches are coming from now — Snowflake, GitHub PATs, Azure IMDS. This episode unpacks the NHI crisis, the vendor landscape, and the three control patterns that actually work this quarter.

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📚 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

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✅ What counts as a non-human identity (it's more than service accounts)

✅ The 45:1 ratio — and why it's 200:1 in agentic shops

✅ Why "service account" is doing too much work (meet Dave)

✅ How Snowflake, GitHub PAT theft, and Azure IMDS all trace to NHIs

✅ Why your PAM solution does ... 

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