Extend Identity Security to Non-Human Identities
Protect non-human identities from Day 1 with Saviynt Identity Cloud. Gain full visibility, contextual insights, and risk-based evaluation for non-human identities—just as you do for human identities without any additional integration effort. Secure all identities comprehensively and seamlessly throughout a single, unified identity security platform.

Discover all non-human identities in a unified view
Get a complete, real-time inventory of your human and non-human identity landscape.
- Automatically discover workloads, accounts, and credentials across your environment
- Customize your view with flexible filters—sort by identity type, ownership, risk level, and more

Understand your non-human identity security posture
Analyze non-human access and relationships to surface prioritized compliance risks.
- Uncover risk levels—from critical to low—with clear context and reasoning
- Explore access relationships through interactive mapping of workloads, accounts, credentials, and entitlements.

Track non-human identity activity with a timeline
Surface access and lifecycle change events to accelerate response and support compliance.
- Visualize all events in a timeline view, including creation, ownership changes, deletions, and more
- Monitor detailed attributes such as who initiated the request, who approved it, and other key actions in one click
Resources

Solution Guide
Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM) for Non-Human Identity

Press Release
Saviynt Showcases the Only Converged Identity Security Platform for All Identities – Human and Non-Human – at Identiverse 2025

Ebook
Many Identities, Unified Security: Converging Human and Non-Human Identity Management
Non-Human Identity: FAQs
What are non-human identities?
Non-human identities (NHI) are digital identities used to represent software workloads, robotic process automation (RPA) and other non-human actors within IT environments. They are not limited to machine identities — a common misconception — and include a broader range of identity types that interact with systems, data and applications.
Key Components of Non-Human Identities:
- Machines: Entities that perform actions
- Workloads – VMs, containers, serverless functions
- Bots – RPA bots, scripts
- AI Agents – Autonomous or semi-autonomous digital agents
- Devices – Physical devices like IoT sensors, smart cars, medical devices
- Accounts: Unique identity representations within specific systems or applications
- IAM roles, service accounts, system accounts, service principals
- Credentials: Secrets used to authenticate and authorize access:
- Tokens, certificates, API keys, SSH keys
Why is Identity Security for NHI important?
As enterprises increasingly adopt automation and AI agents, securing non-human identities has become a critical extension of identity security and cloud entitlement management. Non-human identities already outnumber human users, and the gap is widening.
Without proper oversight, these identities become a major blind spot in the security landscape. Securing NHI is critical to reduce the attack surface, prevent misuse of credentials, and maintain compliance—just as it is for human identities. A unified, governance-driven approach ensures that all identities are visible, controlled, and protected.
Where should organizations begin with NHI security?
To effectively secure non-human identities (NHI), the first and most critical step is to establish comprehensive visibility across your environment. This means identifying all non-human actors along with their associated accounts, credentials, and access relationships.
Beyond basic inventory, it’s essential to gain contextual insights into their access, ownership, and lifecycle events. A timeline-based view that captures key activities—like ownership changes, and permission modifications—paired with risk-level classification, allows security teams to not only understand how these identities operate but also to prioritize remediation efforts.
Starting with visibility ensures a strong basis for governance and continuous compliance across all identity types.