Service accounts
Application runtime identities — IAM users, GCP service accounts, Azure service principals. The OG NHI.
Service accounts. API keys. CI/CD principals. OIDC tokens. Workload roles. AI coding agents asking for AWS creds. Your real identity surface is the non-human one — and most of it is ungoverned. Cloudanix gives all of it the same JIT, the same audit, and the same inventory as the humans.
Three patterns show up in every NHI incident review — and none of them are fixed by another HR-style identity tool.
An access key minted in 2022 for a one-off cron job is
still in a .env somewhere, still authenticated
to production. Rotation is theory. Revocation is wishful
thinking.
Every CloudTrail event reads svc-deploy.
Which engineer triggered the prod migration? Which agent
dropped the table? Audit and forensics go blind the moment
identity is shared.
Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Aider — all reaching for
real cloud APIs, all carrying their developer's long-lived
keys. The next credential incident is sitting in someone's
~/.aws/credentials right now.
Anything that can call your cloud APIs and isn't a person. Six categories — Cloudanix governs all six with the same JIT policy engine, the same audit trail, and the same inventory.
Application runtime identities — IAM users, GCP service accounts, Azure service principals. The OG NHI.
Static access keys, SaaS tokens, vendor API keys. The credentials that end up in .envrc and stay there.
GitHub Actions OIDC roles, GitLab Runners, Buildkite agents. They mint creds, they ship code, they're rarely audited.
EKS / GKE / AKS pod identities, EC2 instance profiles, Cloud Run service identities. The "the role that the pod uses."
Cross-account roles, vendor-installed roles (SaaS observability, MSP tooling), SAML/OIDC federation principals.
Claude Code, Cursor, Kiro, Copilot, Aider — and any agent that calls cloud APIs over MCP. The fastest-growing NHI category in 2026.
Every identity in your AWS, Azure and GCP accounts is pulled into a single inventory — humans, service accounts, OIDC, instance profiles, federated roles, AI agents. Cross-cloud, normalized.
The same JIT engine that humans use issues short-lived, scoped credentials to service accounts, CI/CD pipelines, and AI coding agents over MCP. Long-lived keys retire. Sessions die when work ends.
Every action is linked to a real human owner — even when the cloud sees only the shared service account or the agent name. CloudTrail and DB logs become forensics-grade without changing how your apps authenticate.
The CIEM market built itself around permission analysis —
who can do what, who's over-privileged, where the
least-privilege gaps are. Useful, necessary, not enough.
A non-human identity is a workflow, not a
person. It mints credentials, calls APIs, dies, comes back
as a new pod with a new role. Governing it means brokering
credentials at the moment of use — not just analyzing
policies at rest. That's why JIT for humans, JIT for service
accounts, and JIT for AI agents are one product
at Cloudanix, not three.
NHI security · the Cloudanix stack
NHI governance is a category, not a product. Cloudanix ships the three pieces it takes to actually run it.
Short-lived, scoped credentials for every identity surface — humans, service accounts, CI/CD, workload roles.
JIT specialized for AI agents — Claude Code, Cursor, Kiro, Codex — via MCP. The agent never sees a credential.
The permission-analysis layer. Identifies over-privileged identities, dormant accounts, and least-privilege gaps — the analysis JIT acts on.
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