NON-HUMAN IDENTITY (NHI) SECURITY

Every non-human identityβ€”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 identityβ€”in sight and under control

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

It's easy to underestimate your NHI risk.

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 themβ€”which is 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 themβ€”which is 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 NHIβ€”even unmanaged, unknown, or unvaulted onesβ€”without disrupting critical processes or breaking automation.

Automated and complete discovery

Uncover all NHIs and their access behavior. Turn shadow accounts into visible, managed assets by mapping human owners, sources, destinations, privilege levels, and associated risks.

Continuous protection at scale

Enforce adaptive policies and virtual fences for service accounts based on how they actually behave. Lock down access patterns, detect anomalies, and block deviations in real time.

Stronger protection, zero disruption

Achieve lasting confidence in your security for even the most complex environments. Prevent lateral movement, ransomware spread, and privilege misuse while ensuring stability and business agility.

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

From blind spots to full protectionβ€”autonomous, continuous, complete.

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

Baseline every service account’s behavior.

Silverfort automatically builds a behavioral baseline for each service account, learning its usual access paths, privileges, and frequency of activity. It scores predictability and detects anomalies such as new hosts, unusual destinations, or sudden privilege elevation. During this learning phase, policies run in β€œalert only” mode, offering visibility without disrupting critical automations. This creates a behavioral fingerprint for every service account, enabling precise, context-aware protection. Β 

Enforce inline, real-time policiesβ€”without breaking automation

Apply virtual fences and adaptive policies to block compromise.

Once baselines mature, Silverfort enforces adaptive policies that lock down activity and permit only expected behavior for each service account. These real-time controls act like virtual fences, automatically blocking abnormal activityβ€”such as unexpected source or destination, or lateral movement attemptsβ€”without disrupting legitimate processes. Least Privilege can become dynamic and self-adjusting, keeping automation safe while preventing misuse, ransomware spread, and privilege abuse.Β 

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

From blind spots to full protectionβ€”autonomous, continuous, complete.

Discover every NHI

Uncover the full scope of non-human identity activity.

Silverfort continuously discovers and maps all AD service accounts and cloud NHIs for granular visibility and insights into their activities, risk indicators, and usage patterns.Β 

Understand and control behavior

Baseline every service account’s behavior.

Silverfort automatically builds a behavioral baseline for each service account, learning its usual access paths, privileges, and frequency of activity. It scores predictability and detects anomalies such as new hosts, unusual destinations, or sudden privilege elevation. During this learning phase, policies run in β€œalert only” mode, offering visibility without disrupting critical automations. This creates a behavioral fingerprint for every service account, enabling precise, context-aware protection. Β 

Enforce inline, real-time policiesβ€”without breaking automation

Apply virtual fences and adaptive policies to block compromise.

Once baselines mature, Silverfort enforces adaptive policies that lock down activity and permit only expected behavior for each service account. These real-time controls act like virtual fences, automatically blocking abnormal activityβ€”such as unexpected source or destination, or lateral movement attemptsβ€”without disrupting legitimate processes. Least Privilege can become dynamic and self-adjusting, keeping automation safe while preventing misuse, ransomware spread, and privilege abuse.Β 

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

Real impact. Real security.

Critical NHI challenges we solve every day

Real impact. Real security.

Critical NHI challenges we solve every day

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

Learn more

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The silent explosion of non-human identities: The need for an end-to-end approachΒ 

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