Machine Identities: The Invisible Security Frontier

Brian de Vries of Traxion on How MSPs Are Securing Identities in the AI Era Tom Field (SecurityEditor) • May 30, 2025

The identity security landscape has transformed with the growth of machine identities and AI agents, creating a significant security gap for organizations, with many unaware of the scale and scope of these digital entities within their environments.

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"The biggest risk is that many organizations don't know where the machine identities live and also where the AI identities live," said Brian de Vries, architect, consultant and team lead for the PAM consultancy at Traxion. While organizations have generally developed mature approaches to human identity management, machine and AI identities represent "a big gap within a black hole" in many security strategies.

"There's no time to sit back and relax. We need to be fully up to date with all ...