[Stanley]

The Future of Cybersecurity Includes Non-Human Employees

Non-human employees are becoming the future of cybersecurity, and enterprises need to prepare accordingly. As organizations scale Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cloud automation, there is exponential growth in Non-Human Identities (NHIs), including bots, AI agents, service accounts and automation scripts. In fact, 51% of respondents in ConductorOne’s 2025 Future of Identity Security Report

https://thehackernews.com/2026/01/the-fu...ludes.html

[Hackers]

The article makes a good point... Humans are used to 2FA and extra security... API keys are often set to permanent, or with long expirations. We don't treat non-human access keys the same.

people go for convenience... access tokens that expire in 5 years, but personal logins that require 2FA weekly or monthly. There's a big gap / difference in how access security is treated