A stolen credential is only useful if you can use it from anywhere.
Non-human identities behave differently from human users — and that predictability is a security advantage hiding in plain sight. Unlike people, cloud NHIs authenticate from consistent, known locations. Nearly 75% resolve to 25 addresses or fewer. 20% to a single address. That level of behavioral consistency means location can be turned into a precise, enforceable security control — one that makes a compromised credential nearly useless to an attacker operating from outside its approved environment.
Silverfort’s Geofencing capability does exactly that. By observing each NHI’s access patterns over a minimum of 30 days, Silverfort auto-suggests a per-identity geofencing policy based on its actual location behavior. One approval, and the policy is pushed directly into the identity provider — Entra ID or AWS — where any authentication attempt from outside the baseline addresses is denied at the moment it happens. No manual policy-building. No hunting through logs identity by identity. Hundreds of ready-made, behaviorally-grounded policies deployed at scale, in a fraction of the time.
Read this brief to understand:
- Why non-human identities are uniquely well-suited to geofencing as a security control, and how their behavioral predictability makes location-based enforcement both precise and scalable
- How Silverfort’s observe-suggest-enforce model builds per-identity geofencing policies automatically from 30 days of observed activity, eliminating the manual effort of identity-by-identity policy creation
- How approved policies are pushed natively into Entra ID and AWS to block any out-of-location authentication at the IdP level, before access is granted, not after the fact