What is Non-Human Identity? | Identity & Fraud Glossary | The Identity Technologist
Digital identities assigned to machines, services, applications, bots, and automated workloads rather than to human users. NHIs include service accounts,…
Digital identities assigned to machines, services, applications, bots, and automated workloads rather than to human users. NHIs include service accounts, API keys, OAuth tokens, certificates, and secrets used by software to authenticate and authorise actions. As identity attack surfaces expand, managing and securing NHIs has become a critical discipline alongside traditional human IAM.