Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

AI agents today are becoming a part and parcel of everyday enterprise operations. They can access databases, trigger workflows, send emails, approve requests, and interact with business systems with very little human involvement. What started as AI assistants is now evolving into autonomous operators capable of making decisions and executing actions at machine speed.

In many organizations, the gap between HR and IT is a "black hole" of productivity and security. When a new hire starts, they often spend their first day staring at a login screen because their access wasn't provisioned. Worse, when an employee leaves, their access to Jira, Slack, or Entra ID might remain active for days or even weeks. This isn’t just an administrative headache; it’s a major security and compliance risk.

Non-human identities (NHIs) authenticate pipelines, connect microservices, pull from secret managers, and provision cloud resources around the clock. They are also, for most security teams, almost completely invisible. Because there has never been a single place to see all of them at once.

CrowdStrike has joined the OpenID Foundation as a Sustaining Corporate Member, its highest level of membership, and is also now a member of IDPro. Together, these commitments reflect a focused effort to help shape the future of identity-first security through both standards leadership and real-world deployment and a shift beyond static authentication toward more dynamic, interoperable, and effective identity security.

Most Drupal security strategies focus on protecting user accounts before login. Organizations invest in strong passwords, multi-factor authentication (MFA), and Single Sign-On (SSO) to prevent unauthorized access. While these controls are important, security risks do not disappear once a user successfully authenticates. Users may remain logged in for extended periods, share credentials with others, access accounts from multiple devices simultaneously, or leave active sessions unattended.

With the growing vulnerability of password-only security systems, your applications, devices, and operating systems would need an authentication system that creates foolproof security. Moreover, as vulnerabilities in cyber ecosystems evolved and password breaches became increasingly common, organizations needed stronger authentication methods to protect sensitive data and user accounts.