Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Non-human identities (NHIs) are not new. We have run service accounts, scripts and machine credentials for years. What changed is the population. Every automation project and every AI investment adds more of them, and they now sit in the foreground of the security conversation, versus the background. You have probably seen the ratios in every deck on the topic. One hundred NHIs per human. Two hundred to one. Pick a number. The point in this session was that the exact ratio does not matter much anymore.

Every year, higher education hits the same beats. New students show up in the fall, ready to begin their undergraduate career. Staff and faculty come and go on their own timelines, some tenured for decades and others moving on after a single semester. Every spring, graduates ring in a new chapter, crossing the stage after years of hard-won achievements. Then there’s visiting researchers and affiliated partners, collaborating all throughout the academic year.