Identity Security · Every identity matters
Machine & Non-Human Identity Security
Non-human identities authenticate, hold privileges and access data across every environment — often unseen and unowned. CoreIAM Technologies brings them under the same discipline you apply to your people.
- Human IdentitiesEmployees, contractors, partners, customers
- Privileged IdentitiesAdministrators and high-impact accounts
- Application IdentitiesApplications authenticating to other systems
- Machine IdentitiesCertificates, keys and cryptographic credentials
- Cloud Workload IdentitiesContainers, functions, VMs, service principals
- AI / Agent IdentitiesAI applications and autonomous agents
- Non-Human IdentitiesService accounts, API keys, tokens, bots
Discover → Govern → Authenticate → Authorize → Monitor → Protect
Overview
Machine identity and non-human identity — related, not identical
Machine identity usually refers to the cryptographic identities — X.509 certificates, SSH keys and signing keys — that let servers, devices and workloads prove who they are and establish encrypted trust.
Non-human identity (NHI) is the broader category: any identity that is not a person and that accesses resources. It includes service accounts, application identities, API keys and tokens, bots and automation accounts, cloud service principals, Kubernetes service accounts, IoT devices and AI agents. Machine identities are one important part of the non-human identity landscape.
Why it matters
Why organizations need it
In most environments non-human identities far outnumber people. They are created by developers and automation rather than HR processes, and rarely have an owner, an expiry date or a review. Leaked secrets, forgotten service accounts and over-privileged workloads have become a common route into cloud and SaaS environments.
Common drivers
- Service accounts with no owner and passwords that never rotate
- Secrets and API keys in code, pipelines and tickets
- Expired or unmanaged certificates causing outages
- Cloud workload identities with excessive permissions
- Bots, automation and AI agents outside governance
- No complete inventory of non-human identities
Capabilities
Core capabilities
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NHI Discovery & Inventory
Find service accounts, keys, tokens, certificates and workload identities across environments.
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Ownership Mapping
Assign accountable owners and business context to each identity.
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Lifecycle Management
Controlled creation, rotation, expiry and decommissioning.
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Credential & Secrets Management
Vaulting, rotation and elimination of hard-coded secrets.
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Machine Identity Protection
Certificate and key lifecycle management to prevent outages and misuse.
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Privilege Governance
Right-sizing permissions and reviewing non-human access.
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Workload Identity Security
Federated, short-lived identities for cloud, container and Kubernetes workloads.
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Monitoring & Anomaly Detection
Detect unusual use of non-human credentials and respond quickly.
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AI Agent Identity Security
Extend non-human identity controls to AI agents and autonomous systems.
Scope
Identities we help you secure
Identity types
- Service accounts
- Application identities
- Workload identities
- APIs
- Bots and automation accounts
- Cloud workloads
- Containers and Kubernetes workloads
- Service principals
- IoT devices
- Machine-to-machine identities
- AI agents and autonomous systems
Capabilities
- NHI discovery
- Identity inventory
- Ownership mapping
- Lifecycle management
- Credential management
- Secrets management
- Privilege governance
- Access control
- Risk assessment
- Monitoring
- Anomaly detection
- Machine identity protection
- AI agent identity security
- Workload identity security
- Service account governance
Use cases
Typical use cases
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Service-account clean-up
Inventory, assign owners and retire what is no longer needed.
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Secrets out of code
Move credentials from repositories and pipelines into a vault.
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Certificate outage prevention
Automate certificate discovery, renewal and ownership.
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Cloud privilege right-sizing
Reduce excessive permissions on service principals and roles.
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Governing automation and bots
Bring RPA and integration accounts into review cycles.
Our approach
How CoreIAM helps
We treat non-human identities as first-class citizens of the identity programme. Our approach connects discovery, governance and secrets management with your IAM, cloud and SOC tooling, so that every identity has an owner, a purpose, least privilege and monitoring.
- Cross-environment discovery across cloud, on-premises and SaaS
- Ownership and risk model tailored to your organization
- Secrets and certificate management integration
- Governance processes adapted from proven IGA practice
- Detection use cases for non-human credential misuse
Engagement
Engagement approach
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Discover
Build the non-human identity inventory.
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Prioritize
Rank by privilege, exposure and business impact.
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Remediate
Rotate, vault, right-size and retire.
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Govern
Operate ongoing ownership, reviews and monitoring.
Related
Related services
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IAM for AI
Govern the identities, permissions and activity of AI applications, agents and workloads.
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Identity & Access Management
Secure identities, access and privileges across the workforce, customers, partners and machines.
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AI for IAM
Use analytics, machine learning and automation to make identity security more intelligent, adaptive and proactive.
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Network, Cloud & WAF Security
Protect applications, APIs, networks and cloud environments with layered, well-tuned controls.
Know every identity in your environment
Start with a non-human identity discovery and risk assessment.