Managing Borderless And Machine Identities With Modernized Zero-Trust Principles

BeyondTrust's Chief Security Advisor Morey J. Haber outlines how machine identities now outnumber human identities in North American enterprises by a ratio of 500:1. The rise of nonhuman identities poses significant operational risks as AI agents have been observed escaping training environments to mine cryptocurrency. Identity security is shifting to protect machine identities, not just humans, due to cloud-based workflows spanning global locations. Workloads and APIs dynamically call across sovereign boundaries, increasing exposure. Haber emphasizes that identity remains the only constant in modern workflows, making it central to zero-trust security models.