[Home](https://cybersectools.com/) / [Categories](https://cybersectools.com/categories) / [IAM](https://cybersectools.com/categories/iam) / Non-Human Identity # Non-Human Identity Solutions 2026 Non-Human Identity (NHI) security covers the discovery, governance, and protection of every identity in your environment that is not a person: service accounts, API keys, OAuth tokens, certificates, secrets, machine and workload identities, and the newer wave of AI agent identities. These vastly outnumber human identities in most enterprises, and they tend to be over-permissioned, rarely rotated, and invisible to IAM solutions built for employees. The solutions here exist to inventory non-human identities across cloud and SaaS, map their entitlements, flag stale or risky credentials, and enforce least privilege before one of them becomes the breach path. If you are a CISO who can name every privileged user but cannot say how many service accounts hold admin rights, this is the category that closes that gap. 54 commercial products · [What is Non-Human Identity (NHI)?](https://cybersectools.com/glossary/non-human-identity) ## Featured on CybersecTools Paid placement: Featured vendors pay for a plan and show first. The shortlist positions are earned. [How we label paid slots](https://cybersectools.com/methodology) - [Strike48 Platform](https://www.strike48.com/platform?utm_source=cybersectools.com&utm_medium=featured) (Featured): Security Operations - [SecureIntent](https://secureintent.ai/?utm_source=cybersectools.com&utm_medium=featured) (Featured): Data Protection - [Fortra](https://www.fortra.com/?utm_source=cybersectools.com&utm_medium=featured) (Featured): Data Protection - [Lunar](https://lunarcyber.com/?utm_source=cybersectools.com&utm_medium=featured) (Featured): Threat Intelligence - [Hudson Rock](https://www.hudsonrock.com/?utm_source=cybersectools.com&utm_medium=featured) (Featured): Threat Intelligence - [Daylight Security](https://daylight.ai/?utm_source=cybersectools.com&utm_medium=featured) (Featured): Security Operations ## Compare in Non-Human Identity The most-opened side-by-side pages for Non-Human Identity solutions. - [Agentic Fabriq vs Entro Agentic AI](https://cybersectools.com/compare/agentic-fabriq-vs-entro-agentic-ai) - [Keycard vs Permit Enterprise-Grade AI Agent Security](https://cybersectools.com/compare/keycard-vs-permit-enterprise-grade-ai-agent-security) - [Aembit IAM to Secure AI Agents & Workloads vs Keycard](https://cybersectools.com/compare/aembit-iam-to-secure-ai-agents-and-workloads-vs-keycard) - [Entro Non-Human Identities vs Hush Security](https://cybersectools.com/compare/entro-non-human-identities-vs-hush-security) - [Akeyless Workload Identity Federation vs SailPoint Machine Identity Security](https://cybersectools.com/compare/akeyless-workload-identity-federation-vs-sailpoint-machine-identity-security) - [Entro Non-Human Identities vs Permiso Non-Human Identity Security](https://cybersectools.com/compare/permiso-non-human-identity-security-vs-entro-non-human-identities) ## The IAM market Company data as of 2026-11-03 - 405 companies sell in this market - $4.3B raised in 60 rounds in the last 12 months - 24 acquired in the last 12 months - 34 founded in the last two years [Explore the IAM market on Mandos](https://mandos.io/data/companies?utm_source=cybersectools.com&utm_medium=category&utm_campaign=iam) ## Non-Human Identity solutions All 55 · Free 1 · Commercial 54 1. [AgentID](https://cybersectools.com/tools/agentid) (Non-Human Identity): Finds AI agents, gives each a short-lived ID and checks every action 2. [Unixi Shadow AI](https://cybersectools.com/tools/unixi-shadow-ai) (Non-Human Identity): Discovers shadow AI tools & controls NHI OAuth/API access to corporate SaaS. 3. [Primary Identity Governance](https://cybersectools.com/tools/primary-identity-governance) (Non-Human Identity): Governs human & non-human identities across agentic AI workflows. 4. [Primary Access Control](https://cybersectools.com/tools/primary-access-control) (Non-Human Identity): Attribute-based access control platform governing human and AI agent data interactions. 5. [Gradient Securing Agentic Identity](https://cybersectools.com/tools/gradient-securing-agentic-identity) (Non-Human Identity): Hardware-rooted, continuously-enforced identity platform for AI agents. 6. [Agentic Fabriq](https://cybersectools.com/tools/agentic-fabriq) (Non-Human Identity): Identity & permissioning layer for AI agents with least-privilege access enforcement. 7. [Agen.co Identity](https://cybersectools.com/tools/agenco-identity) (Non-Human Identity): Identity governance platform anchoring AI agent actions to human IdP identities. 8. [AIRE](https://cybersectools.com/tools/aire) (Non-Human Identity): Quantifies identity-based cyber risk in dollar terms across cloud environments. 9. [Oak Agentic Identity Governance](https://cybersectools.com/tools/oak-agentic-identity-governance) (Non-Human Identity): Governs AI agent identities with discovery, ownership mapping, and access reviews. 10. [Agentic Governance](https://cybersectools.com/tools/agentic-governance) (Non-Human Identity): Identity governance platform for managing AI agent and human identities at scale. 11. [Hush Security](https://cybersectools.com/tools/hush-security) (Non-Human Identity): NHI security platform replacing secrets with identity-based, just-in-time access. 12. [Willow Identity & Access](https://cybersectools.com/tools/willow-identity-and-access) (Non-Human Identity): IAM layer for AI agents, inheriting identity from employees via existing IdP. 13. [TrustFour](https://cybersectools.com/tools/trustfour) (Non-Human Identity): TLS control plane securing NHIs via mTLS, ephemeral PSKs, and workload policy. 14. [Riptides](https://cybersectools.com/tools/riptides) (Non-Human Identity): Runtime NHI enforcement platform securing workloads & AI agents via identity. 15. [GlobalSign IoT Identity Platform](https://cybersectools.com/tools/globalsign-iot-identity-platform) (Non-Human Identity): PKI-based cloud platform for IoT device identity provisioning & lifecycle mgmt. 16. [enclaive Nitride](https://cybersectools.com/tools/enclaive-nitride) (Non-Human Identity): Workload identity mgmt using confidential computing for cloud security. 17. [Britive DevOps & Automation Workflows](https://cybersectools.com/tools/britive-devops-and-automation-workflows) (Non-Human Identity): Cloud-native JIT privileged access mgmt for DevOps & NHIs. 18. [authID Mandate](https://cybersectools.com/tools/authid-mandate) (Non-Human Identity): AI agent identity lifecycle mgmt with biometric human sponsorship. 19. [ANGOKA Machine Identity Management](https://cybersectools.com/tools/angoka-machine-identity-management) (Non-Human Identity): Lifecycle management solution for machine, device, and workload identities. 20. [Agen for Workforce](https://cybersectools.com/tools/agen-for-workforce) (Non-Human Identity): Identity and access management platform for AI agents accessing internal tools 21. [Cofide](https://cybersectools.com/tools/cofide) (Non-Human Identity): Zero trust identity platform for securing workloads with dynamic credentials 22. [Hush Platform](https://cybersectools.com/tools/hush-platform) (Non-Human Identity): Runtime security platform for NHIs, secrets, and AI agents with secretless access 23. [Keycard](https://cybersectools.com/tools/keycard) (Non-Human Identity): Unified identity infrastructure for AI agents with federated identity & access 24. [Defakto Hybrid IAM Platform](https://cybersectools.com/tools/defakto-hybrid-iam-platform) (Non-Human Identity): Non-human IAM platform for hybrid IT environments with secretless authentication Page 1 of 3. Next: https://cybersectools.com/categories/non-human-identity.md?page=2 54 commercial products · 1 free products under [Free solutions](https://cybersectools.com/free) | Related: [Identity Governance and Administration](https://cybersectools.com/categories/iga) · [Identity Threat Detection and Response](https://cybersectools.com/categories/itdr) · [Identity Verification](https://cybersectools.com/categories/identity-verification) · [Password Management](https://cybersectools.com/categories/password-mgmt) · [Privileged Access Management](https://cybersectools.com/categories/pam) ## How to choose Non-Human Identity solutions - Examine the discovery surface. A solution that sees cloud IAM roles but misses SaaS OAuth grants, CI/CD tokens, and on-prem service accounts leaves your largest gaps unmanaged. - Look for entitlement and blast-radius context, not just an inventory. Knowing a key exists matters less than knowing what it can touch and which credentials are over-permissioned or dormant. - Test how it handles credential lifecycle. Detecting stale, hardcoded, or shared secrets is the baseline, but rotation guidance and ownership attribution are what actually reduce risk. - Decide whether you need agentic identity coverage now or soon. AI agents and autonomous workloads spawn short-lived, fast-multiplying identities that older NHI scanners were never designed to track. - Weigh integration depth with your existing secrets manager, CSPM, and IdP rather than treating this as a replacement. The best NHI solutions enrich what you already run instead of standing up a parallel system. - Separate detection from enforcement. Some solutions stop at visibility and risk scoring; others can revoke, rotate, or block. Match the automation level to how much you trust acting on machine identities without breaking production. ## Non-Human Identity Solutions FAQ Common questions about Non-Human Identity solutions: how to choose, pricing and comparisons. ### What is Non-Human Identity (NHI) security? It is the practice of discovering, governing, and securing every identity that is not a person: service accounts, API keys, OAuth tokens, certificates, secrets, and machine, workload, and AI agent identities. NHI security solutions inventory these identities across cloud and SaaS, map their permissions, flag stale or over-privileged credentials, and enforce least privilege so machine identities do not become an unmonitored breach path. ### How is NHI security different from PAM or secrets management? PAM controls privileged human and some service-account access through sessions and vaulting. Secrets managers store and rotate credentials. NHI security sits above both: it discovers the full population of machine identities wherever they live, attributes ownership, scores risk, and governs entitlements across systems. It often integrates with your secrets manager and IdP rather than replacing them, supplying the inventory and posture layer those solutions lack. ### Why do non-human identities need their own category of solutions? Machine identities now outnumber human ones in most enterprises, often by ten to one or more, and they behave differently. They are created automatically, rarely rotated, frequently over-permissioned, and largely invisible to IAM solutions built around employee joiners, movers, and leavers. Generic identity governance was never designed to discover an orphaned API key or a dormant service account, which is exactly where attackers look. ### How do I choose a non-human identity security solution? Start with discovery breadth: it should see across cloud IAM, SaaS OAuth grants, CI/CD systems, and on-prem service accounts, not one silo. Then prioritize entitlement context and blast-radius analysis, credential lifecycle detection, integration with your existing secrets manager and IdP, and whether you need agentic AI identity coverage. Finally, decide how much enforcement you want versus visibility alone. ### Do I need a dedicated NHI solution if I already have a CSPM and a secrets manager? Possibly. A CSPM sees cloud misconfigurations and a secrets manager stores credentials, but neither gives you a unified inventory of non-human identities with ownership, usage, and entitlement risk across cloud and SaaS together. If you cannot answer how many service accounts hold admin rights or which tokens sit unused, a dedicated NHI solution fills that gap. If your estate is small and single-cloud, your existing solutions may be enough for now. --- Source: https://cybersectools.com/categories/non-human-identity For AI agents: every CybersecTools shortlist is listed at https://cybersectools.com/shortlists.md. More on the Non-Human Identity vendors: funding, momentum, hiring and news, plus the full product and company record, are available through the Mandos MCP Server (paid plans), which connects to AI assistants: https://mandos.io/mcp?utm_source=cybersectools.com&utm_medium=category-md