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 identit...

🤖 Agents don’t log in. They act.
At #NHIcon 2026 the message was clear: human-centric IAM breaks in the age of agentic AI.
Static roles + long-lived creds = 🚨 risk amplification.
Time for identity at the speed of autonomy. 🔐
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…

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 wrote up my thoughts and shared some notes I took during the event.

blog.gitguardian.com/nhicon-2026/

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

#NHIcon 2026

"How NHIs and Agentic AI Change the Stakes"
From John Yeoh,
Chief Scientific Officer of the Cloud Security Alliance

Really enjoying #NHIcon 2026, the first conference I am attending this year, actually.

"Reimagining IAM for Agentic AI: Building Secure, Accountable Non-Human Identity Ecosystems " from Ken Huang

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We are less than one week from #NHIcon 2026
aembit.io/nhicon/

I am very grateful for the chance to present a new talk: "How Agentic AI Helps You Leak Secrets And What To Do About It" at 1:00pm PST

Make sure you register for a full day of learning about identity!

Make sure you register for #NHIcon 2026 while you still have time. It is going to be the 27th before you know it, and you do not want to miss this lineup.

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NHIcon by Aembit Join NHIcon on Jan. 28, the defining virtual event for non-human identity security, showcasing bold ideas, expert insights, and groundbreaking strategies.

🚨 Speaking today at #NHICon Cybersecurity Conference! aembit.io/nhicon/ 🚨

Excited to share that I'll be co-presenting the session "LLMjacking Exposed: How Attackers Hijack AI Models"

🗓 Join us live today www.accelevents.com/e/nhicon

#AI #Cybersecurity #LLMjacking