Matthew RosenquistFounder & CISO Advisor, Cybersecurity Insights · CISO, Cybersecurity Strategist, & Industry Advisor

AIs Impact on Non-Human Identities

20 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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When buying AI tools, skip vague questions about usage. Instead ask vendors directly: will this create non-human identities like service accounts, API users, agents, or bots in my environment? This specific question forces honest answers about security risks that generic inquiries let vendors dodge.

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Do we ever ask people, "Will your product create non-human identities or service accounts or API users or agents or bots or tokens or machine credentials in my environment?" That's a simple question when you say it out loud. If you poll people, ask how many of them are asking that specific question. "Are you using AI?" Sure, they ask that. "How are you using it?" Maybe. How is your utilization of it impacting me and what you provide to me? The number starts to drop dramatically. When you start to say, will it create any of these? Then you get to almost, you know, zero point. That's where we have to go.