Zero Trust for Nonhuman Workload Access: A Primer

#### Executive summary This primer explains how to extend zero-trust controls to nonhuman identities—workloads, service accounts, CI/CD pipelines and AI agents—by verifying identity at every request (using attestation and federation), enforcing policy across trust boundaries at the application layer, issuing ephemeral credentials instead of long-lived secrets, and applying continuous, conditional access checks; it cites industry reports and positions Aembit's Workload IAM as an implementation example.