Zero Trust for Agentic AI: Managing Non‑Human Identities at Scale

Agentic AI systems transform software into autonomous actors that set goals, invoke tools, and operate across environments with minimal human oversight. This shift has driven an explosive rise in non‑human identities (NHIs), most of which are over‑privileged and secured with static credentials. As a result, familiar failures—prompt injection, confused deputy scenarios, credential leakage, and supply‑chain compromise—now occur at machine speed, turning NHIs into the dominant enterprise attack surface.