The NHI Global Summit - Fireside Chat:Managing the full-lifecycle of Secrets & Non-Human Identities
Podcast: The Non-Human & AI Identity PodcastPublished On: Thu Sep 04 2025
Description: Our NHI Mgmt Group (https://nhimg.org) hosts the NHI Global Summit at the Nasdaq Building, Times Square on February 27th 2025.Oded Hareven (CEO and Co-founder, Akeyless) and James J Azar (CISO at AP4 Group & Host of the CyberHub Podcast) highlighted how reducing secrets and leveraging #SPIFFE, #SPIRE, and #OIDC tokens helps shrink the attack surface.Less secrets, more security!One great discussion was around the different generations or maturity of NHI Management – Oded shared that with most clients at the moment the focus is protecting the credentials (secrets)1st Gen – Static secrets are the core issue at most orgs and the initial focus is the need to get them secured e.g. in a secrets vault, to reduce discovery etc.2nd Gen – Rotation tends to be the next generation or focus, however it isnot bring implemented as much as it should have been, even though regulators and auditors expect this to happen – why because it’s very hard to rotate without potentially causing operational impact.3rd Gen – moving on from rotation, and using Just-In-Time (JIT) credentials and temporary identitiesFor more great content on Non-Human Identities, go to our portal https://nhimg.org/, where we have the most comprehensive knowledge centre on Non-Human / Machine Identities, including Research, White Papers, Breaches, Discussion Forum, Blogs and Products that support the risk management of NHIs.
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