How to protect your data with Agentic AI

**Executive summary:** This article explains Non-Human Identities (NHIs) — machine identities backed by secrets (keys, tokens, passwords) — and advocates a holistic approach to their discovery, classification, lifecycle management, monitoring, and remediation to reduce risk, support compliance, and improve operational efficiency in cloud and hybrid environments; it outlines best practices (audits, automated rotation, access controls, behavior monitoring), cross-department collaboration, and future directions including AI-assisted detection.