Identity and Access Management glossary

Explore the concepts used across Identity and Access Management, Identity Governance, Access Management, privileged access, authorization and identity security.

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  • Non-human identities

    Agent Identity

    An Agent Identity is a digital identity associated with an autonomous or semi-autonomous software agent.

  • Non-human identities

    AI Identity

    An AI Identity is a governed digital identity associated with an AI model, agent, or bot acting within an enterprise environment.

  • Non-human identities

    Machine Identity

    A Machine Identity is a non-human identity used by an application, host, workload, or system component to authenticate or act digitally.

  • Non-human identities

    Non-Human Identity

    A Non-Human Identity is a digital identity used by a system, service, workload, bot, script, or automation rather than by a person.

    NHI
  • Non-human identities

    Shadow AI

    Shadow AI refers to AI agents, models, or automations operating without sufficient visibility, registration, or governance.