I had the amazing honor of speaking at #NHIcon 2026 earlier this week. I have not been able to stop pondering some of the amazing insights I heard there.

I would strongly encourage everyone to go see the recordings, but in the meantime, I wrote up my thoughts and shared some notes I took during the event.

https://blog.gitguardian.com/nhicon-2026/

Agentic AI and Non‑Human Identities Demand a Paradigm Shift In Security: Lessons from NHIcon 2026

In the race to innovate, software has repeatedly reinvented how we define identity, trust, and access. In the 1990's, the web made every server a perimeter. In the 2010's, the cloud made every identity a workload. Here in 2026, agentic AI makes every action autonomous.  Throughout the second annual NHIcon,

GitGuardian Blog - Take Control of Your Secrets Security
All too soon, we are at the end of the live sessions at #NHIcon 2026.
A closing keynote, not recorded.
"A Security Update from the Scaling Laws Frontier"
From:
Jason Clinton
Deputy CISO at Anthropic

#NHIcon keeps rolling into the afternoon with:

"How AI Will Shape the Shift-Left in AppSec"

from
Anitha Dakamarri
Lead Application Security Engineer at Donnelley Financial Solutions

#NHIcon 2026

"From Helpers to Hazards: Testing AI-Generated Code for Security"

Swapnil Pawar
Lead Information Security Engineer at Apex Fintech Solutions

"The "fix" is a new flaw"

At #NHIcon
This is the most info-packed lightning talk I have ever seen!

"Building Cloud-Native Agents: Architecting Scalable and Autonomous AI for Modern Systems"
from
Nishanth Sirikonda
Workday Solutions Architect at FirstDay Foundation

My favorite quote: "We need to know; how do we get them to show?"
A brilliant conversation at #NHIcon

"The Power Shift: Building Security Guardrails in the Age of Agentic AI"
with
Larry Whiteside
Paul Guerra
Russell Okoth
Yaron Levi
and Diana Kelley

#NHIcon 2026

Audit‑Ready Grounding - Build a “Cite‑or‑Fail” Databricks Agent in Minutes

Shaurya Agrawal
Start-Up CTO at Yournxt Technologies

#NHIcon 2026 is rolling right along with:

"Seeing the Invisible: Telemetry That Makes AI Agents Investigable"

Pavan Kumar Kota
IEEE Senior Member, Architect and PHD Student at Walmart Global Tech

#NHIcon is full of great content slides :)

Governing the Ghost in the Machine: Identity & Security Architectures for Agentic AI
from
Gaurav Singodia
Senior Manager, Cloud DevOps & SRE at Snowflake

Absolutley loving #NHIcon 2026

Governing the Ghost in the Machine: Identity & Security Architectures for Agentic AI
from
Gaurav Singodia
Senior Manager, Cloud DevOps & SRE at Snowflake