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Modernization Monthlies - Securing non-human identities: Your new path to modernization
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michellewilk
SailPoint
For years, identity modernization has focused on familiar challenges: reducing upgrade fatigue, managing customizations, and keeping pace with evolving infrastructure.
But the identity landscape has changed.
Today, one of the fastest-growing risks in your environment isn’t human at all.
Service accounts, bots, and AI agents now play a critical role in how work gets done. They automate processes, move data, and interact across systems at scale. Yet many of these non-human identities operate without clear ownership, visibility, or governance. They’re often created outside standard processes, over-permissioned, and left unmanaged—creating security gaps that are difficult to detect and even harder to control.
This shift is redefining what modernization really means.
It’s no longer just about maintaining or upgrading your identity platform. It’s about expanding your identity strategy to secure every identity, especially the ones you can’t easily see.
In our next Modernization Monthly session on April 15, “Securing non-human identities: Your new path to modernization,” we’ll explore how identity teams are adapting to this shift and what practical steps you can take to get started.
We’ll cover how to gain visibility into non-human identities, assign ownership, reduce your attack surface, and evolve your identity program to meet today’s demands.
If your identity strategy is still centered on human access alone, now is the time to expand your focus.
After joining this Modernization Monthly webinar, make sure you register for our upcoming series The adaptative identity advantage. The Mission AI Series explores how adaptive identity brings control, visibility, and governance to the AI-powered enterprise. Register now.