Every AI agent is a non-human identity with access. Most are ungoverned.
AI manufactures identities and credentials at machine scale — and IAM built for humans was never designed to see them. Govern360 brings non-human identities under the same governance you apply to people: discovery, least privilege, ownership, lifecycle.
NHI sprawl is the uncontrolled proliferation of non-human identities — service principals, API keys, and AI agent credentials — created by AI systems faster than identity tooling built for humans can see, scope, or revoke them.
The problem
Every agent, integration, and tool connection is a non-human identity holding access. Sprawl in those credentials is sprawl in your attack surface — and most IAM stacks can't even enumerate them, let alone right-size their privilege or revoke them on time. The worst of it is the agents nobody offboards: retired workflows leaving live credentials behind as standing access no one owns.
How Govern360 handles it
Discover. Govern. Control — applied to this problem specifically.
Discover non-human identities — service principals, API keys, and AI agent credentials — and bring them into one register with an owner attached to each.
Right-size each identity's access so agents and integrations hold only the permissions they need, compiled across the identity planes you already run, with read-back-gated trust state so nothing shows a false green.
Give agents the same joiner/mover/leaver lifecycle you give employees — provision with scoped access, re-scope when the workflow changes, and deprovision the moment it's retired.
Questions, answered
What is a non-human identity (NHI)?
A non-human identity is any credential-holding identity that isn't a person — a service principal, API key, workload identity, or AI agent credential. AI systems create these at scale, which is why they've become a distinct identity-security problem.
Why is NHI sprawl a security risk?
Each non-human identity is an access path. When AI mints them faster than IAM can inventory and right-size them, you get an authorization surface no one designed and no one watches — especially the retired agents whose live credentials are never revoked.
How do you inventory non-human identities for AI agents?
Govern360 enrolls every AI agent and service identity in a first-class registry with an owner and least-privilege scope, then manages each through a provision-to-deprovision lifecycle so credentials don't outlive the workload.