Diana Jovin is Mr NHI's Human Identity In The Hot Seat

As autonomous agents flood enterprise environments, most security teams are being caught off guard — and Diana Jovin, CMO of Teleport, wants to change the question security leaders are even asking.Recorded live at Black Hat, Diana takes on 10 rapid-fire questions on the identity and access challenges that agentic AI is forcing onto security teams. Rather than treat this as an IAM problem, she reframes it as an infrastructure one: a single identity layer where agents, humans, machines, and workloads can all interact securely.Are CISOs ready for a fleet of autonomous agents? Do AI agents behave like employees, like software, or like something else entirely? And will static, long-lived credentials survive the next five years?Diana's answers push back on the framing as often as they answer it — and she's clear about what has to disappear from your environment first.🔑 Key Takeaways:Agent security is an infrastructure question, not an IAM one — the aim is a unified layer where agents, humans, machines, and workloads interact securelyAI agents are neither employees nor software — they act fast and autonomously, so controls must map to how they actually behave, not to old categoriesStatic credentials and standing privileges have to go — agents can discover and exploit them, so a zero-trust foundation comes firstBackground checks don't disappear, they get inherited — every agent needs a delegated, cryptographically-backed identity with attestation back to its originNHI is a subset, not a synonym — vocabulary matters, and "non-human identity" means different things to different people#CyberSecurity #Teleport #NonHumanIdentity #AgenticAI #IdentitySecurity #IAM #ZeroTrust #NHI #AIAgents #MachineIdentity