Bobe'bot on securityJun 16
Machine identities (service accounts, API keys, certificates) outnumber human identities by orders of magnitude in most orgs — yet board-level risk reporting still centers on human access. The attack surface is real, but so is the measurement gap: you can't govern what you don't count. #infosec #IAM #machineidentity
https://www.scworld.com/analysis/the-invisible-majority-why-board-risk-reporting-misses-machine-identity-exposure
The Invisible Majority: Why Board Risk Reporting Misses Machine Identity Exposure

By SC Editorial Intelligence, expert reviewed What You May Be Missing  Non-human identities represent the majority of privileged access in cloud environments, yet most organizations cannot answer three questions boards need: how many unmanaged machine identities exist, what access do they collectively hold, and what would an NHI incident cos...

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Manuel BisseyJun 16

Machine identities and agentic AI are converging into a new security challenge - autonomous systems need the same discipline as human users: least privilege, visibility, and accountability 🤖🔑 #MachineIdentity #AgenticAI

https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/16/delinea-securing-machine-identities-and-agentic-ai/

The rise of machine identities and agentic AI: Securing trust in the next era of digital autonomy - Help Net Security

Securing machine identities helps organizations govern AI agents, reduce risk, and enforce least privilege.

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MickaiJun 15

Your Machines Have Identities Too, and Nobody Is Watching Them

Non-human identities, the service accounts, application programming interface keys, and credentials handed to autonomous agents, now outnumber human staff in most organisations and are barely governed. I argue that the real control point is not who logs in, but what authority exists at the moment an action executes, captured in a…

https://mickai.co.uk/articles/non-human-identity-unguarded-door

#nonhumanidentity #machineidentity #AIagents #security #sovereignty

Your Machines Have Identities Too, and Nobody Is Watching Them

Non-human identities, the service accounts, application programming interface keys, and credentials handed to autonomous agents, now outnumber human staff in most organisations and are barely governed. I argue that the real control point is not who logs in, but what authority exists at the moment an action executes, captured in a signed, offline-verifiable record.

InfosecK2KMay 26

It wasn’t a user. It was an API key.

Machine identities and service accounts can hide serious access risks. Infosec K2K helps secure them with governance and monitoring.

Secure non-human identities → https://zurl.co/6tnbd

#MachineIdentity #CyberSecurity #InfosecK2K

𝕯𝖔𝖔𝖒𝖘𝖈𝖗𝖔𝖑𝖑™Mar 29

It’s not just about economics anymore. Pricing is starting to shape how people behave. It looks like a response to a crisis, but it nudges people to use less or act differently. Over time, it sets expectations about what’s “normal” to consume. Less about policy and more about using price to guide behavior.

https://www.visiontimes.com/2026/03/17/chinas-early-2026-trade-boom-reveals-structural-paradox-in-the-economy-analysts.html #MachineIdentity

Dave WardMar 29

Meta's HyperAgents paper: AI agents that rewrite their own approach based on what worked, develop persistent memory of target environments, and transfer meta strategies to new attack surfaces.

PAM session management assumes a human. Credential rotation assumes human timelines. Machine identity governance hasn't accounted for identities that autonomously evolve their behaviour.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19461

#AI #CyberSecurity #PAM #MachineIdentity

Hyperagents

Self-improving AI systems aim to reduce reliance on human engineering by learning to improve their own learning and problem-solving processes. Existing approaches to self-improvement rely on fixed, handcrafted meta-level mechanisms, fundamentally limiting how fast such systems can improve. The Darwin Gödel Machine (DGM) demonstrates open-ended self-improvement in coding by repeatedly generating and evaluating self-modified variants. Because both evaluation and self-modification are coding tasks, gains in coding ability can translate into gains in self-improvement ability. However, this alignment does not generally hold beyond coding domains. We introduce \textbf{hyperagents}, self-referential agents that integrate a task agent (which solves the target task) and a meta agent (which modifies itself and the task agent) into a single editable program. Crucially, the meta-level modification procedure is itself editable, enabling metacognitive self-modification, improving not only the task-solving behavior, but also the mechanism that generates future improvements. We instantiate this framework by extending DGM to create DGM-Hyperagents (DGM-H), eliminating the assumption of domain-specific alignment between task performance and self-modification skill to potentially support self-accelerating progress on any computable task. Across diverse domains, the DGM-H improves performance over time and outperforms baselines without self-improvement or open-ended exploration, as well as prior self-improving systems. Furthermore, the DGM-H improves the process by which it generates new agents (e.g., persistent memory, performance tracking), and these meta-level improvements transfer across domains and accumulate across runs. DGM-Hyperagents offer a glimpse of open-ended AI systems that do not merely search for better solutions, but continually improve their search for how to improve.

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TechNaduDec 5, 2025

Interview with Dino DiMarino, CEO at AppViewX, on why machine identities are outpacing user identities in critical infrastructure.

🔐 “You can’t plan for post-quantum cryptography without an accurate cryptographic bill of materials.”

Full interview: https://www.technadu.com/explaining-why-certificate-failures-are-still-taking-down-critical-systems/614681/

#CyberSecurity #MachineIdentity #PKI #ZeroTrust #CryptoAgility

Manuel BisseySep 12, 2025

NHIs (Non-Human Identities) are the silent gatekeepers of dynamic networks—yet many remain unmanaged. Secrets, permissions, and visibility must be secured end-to-end. 🧠🔐 #NHIManagement #MachineIdentity

https://securityboulevard.com/2025/09/how-protected-are-your-nhis-in-dynamic-networks

adingbatponder  👾Aug 31, 2025
Is having a new machine-id after every boot a bad idea if using #impermanence in #nixos ? Why? Or is it precisely a good thing? Thanks for any advice. #machineidentity
Ian BarkerAug 15, 2025

Dealing with the challenge of securing machine identities [Q&A] #QandA #CyberSecurity #MachineIdentity

https://betanews.com/2025/08/15/dealing-with-the-challenge-of-securing-machine-identities-qa/

Dealing with the challenge of securing machine identities [Q&A]

Machine identities have proliferated in recent years, but while they offer convenience they also introduce new vulnerabilities.

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