How trustworthy are NHIs in sensitive environments

This article explains the importance of managing non-human identities (NHIs)—machine identities, secrets, and permissions—across their lifecycle to secure sensitive environments. It outlines a holistic approach covering discovery, classification, protection, monitoring, automation, and decommissioning, highlights use cases for finance, healthcare, DevOps and SOC teams, describes common challenges (scale, fragmented tools, visibility, end-of-life), and forecasts trends such as greater automation and AI integration.