
In most organisations, non-human identities – API keys, service accounts, bots, scripts, and AI agents – now outnumber human identities. And yet they are created outside of normal IT processes, rarely reviewed and often over-permissioned.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭: 𝐚 𝐡𝐮𝐠𝐞, 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞. Forgotten API keys, hardcoded credentials, and orphaned service accounts lie unmonitored — and attackers know it. Unlike human accounts, NHIs are not offboarded when a project ends or an employee leaves the company. They sit there, fully privileged, waiting to be used.
Securing NHIs requires the same discipline applied to human identities — but automated at scale:
• 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 every machine identity across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments — including the shadow accounts no one signed off on
• 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞 credential storage instead of scattering secrets across config files, code repos, and scripts
• 𝐄𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞 least privilege with just-in-time access instead of standing permissions
• 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐭 identity behaviour and access to catch drift and misuse before it becomes a breach
The objective is to bring NHIs under the same governance umbrella as everything else, not to add another standalone tool to an already disjointed stack.
Securden took a different path — native integration, not stitched-together tools. 𝐏𝐀𝐌, 𝐄𝐏𝐌, 𝐍𝐇𝐈, 𝐈𝐆𝐀, 𝐂𝐈𝐄𝐌, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐈 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 built together from the scratch, not acquired and duct-taped into a suite. The result is a true 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞 for every identity your enterprise depends on 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧, 𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐈 — without the operational drag of legacy PAM.
Securden has been recognized as a Leader in the Frost Radar: Privileged Access Management, 2026 report by Frost & Sullivan.
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