Most enterprises treat identity infrastructure as a directory problem, investing in Active Directory, Entra ID, Okta, or SailPoint to manage identity lifecycle and access policy. Those investments are necessary, but on their own, they are incomplete.
Directories manage identity lifecycle; they do not detect whether the credentials identities use — API keys, service account tokens, OAuth secrets, certificates, and kubeconfig files — have leaked into source code, CI/CD pipelines, or collaboration tools.
The identity infrastructure risks that matter most in 2026:
Non-human identities outside directory reach: service accounts, API keys, and machine tokens that were never created in, or governed by, the directory.
Credential sprawl across environments: the same secret copied across repositories, CI/CD variables, logs, tickets, collaboration tools, and developer machines.
