Meet The NHI Security Platform Built for the AI Era

Astrix is proud to introduce a major expansion of our NHI security platform, which is purpose-built to secure AI agents at scale. Backed by our recent series B funding, this launch marks a critical step in helping enterprises regain control, visibility, and governance over the fast-evolving AI-driven workforce.

Agentic AI Security Starts with NHIs

AI Agents are already a major part of organizations’ workforce. These agentic systems perform tasks, access the organization’s data, and even deploy code.
How do they perform all these actions and access all this data? NHIs.

In their recent report, the OWASP framework explicitly recognizes that Non-Human Identities (NHIs) are critical to securing AI agents. It highlights how these autonomous entities independently make decisions, execute complex tasks, and run continuously without human oversight.

OWASP LLM Applications & Generative AI Top 10 emphasize NHI risks

AI Agents increase NHI sprawl

Here’s what security leaders are not necessarily considering: AI agents don’t operate in isolation. To function, they need access to data, systems, and resources. This highly privileged, often overlooked access happens through non-human identities: API keys, service accounts, OAuth tokens, and other machine credentials.

These NHIs serve as the connective tissue between AI agents and your organization’s digital assets, defining precisely what your AI workforce can access and do. While AI security covers many aspects, securing AI agents fundamentally means securing the NHIs they use.

When unchecked, the broad and sensitive permissions AI agents inherit create significant blind spots that can easily spiral into severe security incidents, including:

• Identity spoofing & privilege abuse
  Attackers and employees can hijack an AI agent’s extensive permissions, gaining broad access across multiple systems simultaneously.
  
• Shadow AI proliferation
  Employees deploy unregistered AI agents using existing API keys without proper oversight, creating hidden backdoors that persist even after employee offboarding.
  
• AI tool misuse & identity compromise
  Compromised agents can trigger unauthorized workflows, modify data, or orchestrate sophisticated data exfiltration campaigns while appearing as legitimate system activity.
  
• Cross-system authorization exploitation
  AI agents with multi-system access dramatically increase potential breach impacts, turning a single compromise into a potentially catastrophic security event.

Securing Agentic AI with Astrix

Astrix has expanded its NHI security platform with advanced AI Agent protection capabilities, recognizing the critical nature of securing AI-driven workflows. Our holistic and comprehensive solution empowers organizations to detect, govern, and enforce policies, ensuring AI agents perform exactly and only the tasks they’re intended for.

Astrix’s AI Agent Identity Graph

How it’s done

Comprehensive AI Agent Discovery and Risk Management

• Complete Visibility
  Automatically identify and map every AI agent, their associated NHIs, permissions, and accessed environments.
  
• Third-party Exposure Identification
  Quickly uncover unauthorized external AI agents and integrations.
  
• Proactive Risk Scoring
  Prioritize security actions based on exposure, configuration vulnerabilities, and permission sensitivity.

Advanced Privilege Management and Secure Authentication

• Eliminate privilege sprawlDetect and automatically remediate redundant, over-privileged, inactive, or orphaned agents.
  
• Secure authentication practicesIdentify and correct insecure practices like static credential usage, significantly reducing exposure risks.
  

Ownership Clarity and Lifecycle Management

• Transparent ownership attribution
  Map each AI agent to human stakeholders for streamlined governance, accountability, and rapid incident response.
  
• Policy-based onboarding
  Ensure AI agents comply with compliance and organizational policies, triggering relevant remediation workflows when needed.
  
• Streamlined credential lifecycle
  Swiftly identify, rotate, or revoke agent credentials during offboarding, eliminating persistent access risks.
  
  
  

Proactive Threat and Anomaly Detection

• Real-time behavioral monitoring
  Continuously monitor AI Agent activities, promptly detecting anomalies and deviations from expected behaviors.
  
• Rapid malicious activity response
  Instantly identify compromised agents attempting unauthorized actions, privilege escalation, or other suspicious activities.

Stay ahead of the curve

As enterprises increasingly rely on AI Agents, the security of their non-human identities becomes paramount. Astrix’s enhanced AI Agent protection capabilities provide the essential governance, visibility, and control necessary for organizations to embrace AI-driven automation, eliminating vulnerabilities before they become breaches. Want to learn more about Astrix and Agentic AI security? Visit astrix.security.