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Definition
Machine identity refers to credentials and identities used by applications, services, workloads, and AI agents — as distinct from human user identities. Overlaps with non-human-identity (NHI).
Key Points
- Explosion of agentic identities increases ITDR demand
- permiso-security / okta focus on post-auth monitoring of machine and agent identities
- Complements agent-control-plane runtime governance