AI IDENTITY SECURITY

Secure the Identities Behind AI

Govern AI agents, machine identities, and automation before they become invisible risk.

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AI is redefining the identity landscape

Organizations are deploying copilots, automated workflows, machine-to-machine connections, and AI agents that can access systems, process data, and take action.

Behind them sit identities, credentials, permissions, secrets, and access paths that often fall outside traditional governance models.

Non-human identities now operate across cloud platforms, applications, infrastructure, automation, and AI environments.

Xalient helps organizations discover these identities, understand the risks they introduce, and establish the ownership, governance, and controls needed to secure them.

THE NEW REALITY

Where AI creates new identity risk

Hidden machine identities

Many organizations lack a clear view of the machine identities operating across their environments.

Unclear ownership

Service accounts, certificates, secrets and credentials often exist without clear ownership or consistent lifecycle management.

Certificate and secret sprawl

Growing numbers of certificates, API keys, tokens and secrets increase operational complexity, outage risk and security exposure.

AI governance gaps

AI agents and automated workflows are being deployed faster than many organizations can establish effective governance and control.

Excessive privileges

Non-human identities often retain more access than they need, increasing the impact of compromised credentials.

Rising compliance pressure

Regulatory and audit expectations are increasing around identity governance, accountability and operational control.

A PRACTICAL APPROACH

What security and identity leaders need to control AI securely

AI expands the number of identities, permissions, and access paths operating across the enterprise. Managing that risk requires a practical approach built for real-world complexity, bringing visibility, ownership, governance, and continuous control together.

 

  1. Visibility across human, machine, and AI identities
  2. Clear ownership and accountability for non-human identities
  3. Governed access across applications, cloud, automation, and AI
  4. Lifecycle control for credentials, certificates, secrets, and service accounts
  5. Continuous monitoring, reporting, and assurance
  6. An operating model that turns fragmented tools into lasting control

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How to Govern AI Agents Before They Become Invisible Administrators

Explore AI agent governance and learn how to manage autonomous agents before they gain unchecked access across data, workflows, and critical systems.

  • By David (DJ) Morimanno
  • 9 min read
  • AI Governance
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HOW XALIENT HELPS

Bringing AI identities under control

Xalient helps organizations secure AI agents and non-human identities by unifying identity governance, machine identity security, and operational control into a practical delivery model.

 

Non-Human Identity
Discovery and Governance

Gain visibility, ownership, and lifecycle control across machine and non-human identities.

Key capabilities

  • Discover machine identities across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments
  • Identify service accounts, certificates, secrets, API keys, tokens, and workload identities
  • Understand ownership, privilege, risk, and business context
  • Apply lifecycle governance and access controls
  • Reduce exposure from unmanaged or excessive permissions
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AI Agent
Governance & Control

Build the ownership, access controls, and governance needed to adopt AI agents securely.

Key capabilities

  • Assess how AI agents and automation workflows access systems and data
  • Define ownership and accountability for AI identities
  • Align AI access with identity governance, privilege management, and security policy
  • Build controls that support secure AI adoption without slowing innovation
  • Establish a long-term AI identity governance roadmap
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Deep expertise across leading Identity, Security and Networking platforms, with vendor-agnostic guidance tailored to your environment and goals.

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