Modern enterprises now manage more non-human identities than human ones, such as service accounts, APIs, workloads, bots, and certificates. Many sit outside traditional IAM controls, creating quiet paths for attackers and avoidable outages (for example, expired certificates).

At the same time, certificate lifecycles are shrinking and regulations are tightening, which makes manual processes unrealistic.

This whitepaper offers a practical blueprint to regain control: discover and inventory every non-human identity, apply least privilege, adopt short-lived and certificate-based credentials, monitor continuously, and align governance with Zero Trust. The guidance is phased, with clear milestones you can start this quarter, and focuses on measurable outcomes, including lower account-takeover risk, fewer incidents from secrets sprawl, faster audits, and reduced operational effort through automation.

If your apps ship weekly and identities rotate hourly, you need a modern approach now.