NON-HUMAN IDENTITY (NHI) SECURITY

Every non-human identity—in sight and under control

Silverfort continuously discovers, contextualizes, and enforces access policies across all NHIs at scale and without disruption.

Non-human identity (NHI) security

Every non-human identity—in sight and under control

Silverfort continuously discovers, contextualizes, and enforces access policies across all NHIs at scale and without disruption.

Your NHI risk is (probably) underestimated.

Service accounts are just the beginning. The non-human identity (NHI) layer spans machine identities, automation scripts, cloud workloads, tokens, keys, and more. These identities operate 24/7, often with persistent, excessive access—but they rarely fall under PAM or MFA protection. Traditional tools can’t discover or control most of them. That’s exactly why attackers target them.

Your NHI risk is (probably) underestimated.

Service accounts are just the beginning. The non-human identity (NHI) layer spans machine identities, automation scripts, cloud workloads, tokens, keys, and more. These identities operate 24/7, often with persistent, excessive access—and they rarely fall under PAM or MFA protection. Traditional tools can’t discover or control most of them. That’s exactly why attackers target them.

From invisible identities to visible protection.

Full NHI control without breaking a thing. Silverfort automatically discovers and secures every service account and NHI—even unmanaged, unknown, or unvaulted ones—without disrupting critical processes or breaking automation.

Automated and complete discovery

Uncover all NHIs and their access behavior. Map human owners, destinations, sources, privilege levels, and associated risks.

Continuous protection at scale

Enforce access policies and virtual fences for service accounts, based on Silverfort patented technology, to block deviations from standard behaviors and prevent lateral movement.

Automate protection at any complexity

Seamlessly protect NHIs without the risk of breaking the processes they manage, using diverse APIs, smart policies, and integrations.

Real impact. Real security.

Critical NHI challenges we solve every day

Real impact. Real security.

Critical NHI challenges we solve every day

How Silverfort protects service accounts and NHIs at any scale or complexity

From blind spots to full protection—autonomous, complete, and continuous.

Discover every NHI

Uncover the full scope of non-human identity activity.

Silverfort continuously discovers and maps all AD service accounts and cloud NHIs, delivering granular visibility and insights into their activities, risk indicators, and usage patterns based on real access telemetry.

Understand and control behavior

Protect identities based on how they behave, not where they reside.

Silverfort builds a unique behavioral baseline for every service account, enabling real-time prevention of privilege escalation, lateral movement, and abnormal access – even for accounts traditional tools can’t detect or control.

Enforce inline, real-time policies—without breaking automation

Apply virtual fences and adaptive policies to block compromise.

Silverfort enforces least privilege, just-in-time access, and dynamic access controls based on real usage – not static entitlements. Virtual fences lock service accounts into their normal behavior (sources and destinations), blocking abuse or takeover without breaking automation or critical processes.

How Silverfort protects service accounts and NHIs at any scale or complexity

From blind spots to full protection—autonomous, complete, and continuous.

Discover every NHI

Uncover the full scope of non-human identity activity.

Silverfort continuously discovers and maps all AD service accounts and cloud NHIs, delivering granular visibility and insights into their activities, risk indicators, and usage patterns based on real access telemetry.

Understand and control behavior

Protect identities based on how they behave, not where they reside.

Silverfort builds a unique behavioral baseline for every service account, enabling real-time prevention of privilege escalation, lateral movement, and abnormal access, even for accounts traditional tools can’t detect or control.

Enforce inline, real-time policies—without breaking automation

Apply virtual fences and adaptive policies to block compromise.

Silverfort enforces least privilege, just-in-time access, and dynamic access controls based on real usage – not static entitlements. Virtual fences lock service accounts into their normal behavior (sources and destinations), blocking abuse or takeover without breaking automation or critical processes.

Service accounts are a security nightmare because you can’t put MFA on them. Silverfort was able to protect what no one else can. Of the security tools that we use, Silverfort has a very high return on investment.

Tom Parker
VP of IT & CISO, Kayak

Service accounts are a security nightmare because you can’t put MFA on them. Silverfort was able to protect what no one else can. Of the security tools that we use, Silverfort has a very high return on investment.

Tom Parker
VP of IT & CISO, Kayak

How Silverfort identifies, validates 
and protects NHIs

Why Silverfort is different

Traditional IAM and PAM weren’t designed for modern NHI risk. Silverfort closes that gap.

Complete coverage

Across cloud, on-prem, hybrid and AI agents

Low-touch rollout

That scales across all identities and environments

Inline enforcement with patented RAP technology

Enabling virtual fencing to block threats instantly

Adaptive policies and enforcement

Based on real-time identity behavior

Non-intrusive protection

With minimal operational impact

Traditional tools

NHI-focused startups

Coverage

Complete coverage

Across cloud, on-prem, hybrid and AI agents

Scalability

Low-touch rollout

That scales across all identities and environments

Real-time protection

Inline enforcement

With patented RAP technology, enabling virtual fencing to block threats instantly

Behavior awareness

Adaptive policies & enforcement

Based on real-time identity behavior

Disruption risk

Non-intrusive protection

Minimal operational impact

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