Non-Human Identity Security Platform Assessment
Executive summary
Non-human identities (NHI) are quickly becoming one of the most important control planes in enterprise security. Credentials, service accounts, API keys, tokens, certificates, and AI agents are critical areas targeted by malicious actors.
NHI management platforms increase security visibility and capability. The vendors assessed here are converging on the same problem from different angles: who created the identity, what can it access, how does it authenticate, is it governed, and how quickly it can be detected and remediated when abused.
Oasis Security, Token Security, and Clutch are the most purpose-built NHI management platforms. For buyers, the market splits into three practical categories.
- Oasis answers who approved it and why does it exist
- Token answers what is the AI agent allowed to do
- Clutch answers should this identity be allowed to act right now
Market context
The NHI problem is expanding due to agentic AI; non-human credentials are often created faster than they are inventoried, owned, rotated, or retired. That creates blind spots across cloud, SaaS, CI/CD, vaults, DevOps, and AI agent environments, where the identity layer becomes the most reliable record of which accounts have access to what.
The strongest platforms combine discovery, lifecycle, governance, policy, and monitoring rather than focusing only on secret scanning or periodic rotation. In practice, the best program treats NHI security as an identity governance and enforcement challenge, not just a secrets hygiene exercise.
Vendor positioning
| Vendor | Positioning | Best-fit strength |
| Oasis Security | Purpose-built NHI management and AI identity governance | Enterprises wanting inventory, lifecycle automation, policy enforcement, and remediation in one NHI platform. |
| Token Security | Identity-first NHI and AI-agent security | Buyers with a prioritization on ownership, least privilege, and contextual governance. |
| Clutch | NHI security with lineage and zero trust | Environments that require strong contextual mapping across cloud, SaaS, DevOps, and on-prem. |
Buying criteria
A buyer should weigh three questions first:
- Does the platform discover all NHIs across the full stack
- Can it govern lifecycle and privilege continuously
- Can it integrate with the systems where identities are created and used
The answer also depends on whether the organization is trying to solve a pure NHI governance problem, an AI-agent control problem, or a broader identity security problem.
Core Focus Comparison
- Oasis Security → Lifecycle governance and accountability for non‑human identities (NHIs), especially service accounts, secrets, and AI agents
- Token Security → AI‑agent–first, intent‑driven identity security treating agents as autonomous actors
- Clutch Security → Universal NHI security using Zero Trust, ephemeral identities, and continuous validation
| Vendor | Primary focus | Control lens | One liner executive summary |
| Oasis Security | NHI lifecycle governance & accountability | Governance-first | "Make every machine identity owned, approved, and governable from create to retire." |
| Token Security | AI-agent-first identity security | Intent & behavior-first | "Secure AI agents by aligning identity access to intent and runtime behavior." |
| Clutch Security | Universal NHI security via Zero Trust | Runtime enforcement-first | "Continuously verified and constrain every non-human identity everywhere." |
Best fit based on vendor focus
Oasis Security
Oasis is the clearest fit for buyers who want a dedicated NHI management platform with strong lifecycle automation and security governance. Its public materials emphasize auto-discovery across IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, vaults, and CI/CD, plus ownership context, policy enforcement, and remediation workflows.
Oasis is especially compelling where identity teams and security teams need one operational view of machine identities and AI identities.
Token Security
Token Security is highly aligned to ownership, context, and least privilege. Its public narrative emphasizes discovery, identity-first governance, and lifecycle management for machine identities and AI agents.
Token is a good fit where security leadership wants to reduce over-privilege and create clear accountability for each NHI.
Clutch
Clutch presents one of the strongest "context plus control" NHI narratives. It emphasizes universal discovery, identity lineage, real-time monitoring, zero trust enforcement, and broad data-source coverage across cloud, SaaS, on-prem, code, CI/CD, vaults, RPA, and data warehouses.
Clutch is especially well suited to environments where the challenge is not just inventory, but understanding origin, usage, and blast radius across the full ecosystem.
Vendor Scorecard
Vendor Scorecard – Non‑Human Identity (NHI) / Machine Identity Security
Scoring scale (based on public docs):
✅ Strong / Native capability | ⚠️ Partial / Emerging / Indirect | — Not a primary focus
| Category | Oasis Security | Token Security | Clutch Security |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discovery | ✅ Deep, continuous discovery of NHIs, AI agents, service principals, secrets, across cloud, SaaS, and on‑prem with intent/context analysis | ✅ Strong discovery of AI agents, NHIs, tokens, keys across hybrid/multi‑cloud and AI ecosystems | ✅ Broad, environment‑agnostic discovery across cloud, SaaS, CI/CD, vaults, and on‑prem with Identity Lineage™ visualization |
| Lifecycle | ✅ Full end‑to‑end lifecycle (create, own, rotate, expire, decommission) including "secure‑by‑default" provisioning | ✅ Lifecycle management for AI agent and NHI identities, focused on control and accountability (less emphasis on provisioning workflows) | ✅ Lifecycle governance with workflow automation, risk‑driven remediation, and ephemeral identity strategy |
| Authentication | ✅ Strong support for federated, short‑lived, and workload‑native authentication (reducing long‑lived credentials) | ✅ Controls how AI agents and NHIs authenticate and operate, especially in agentic AI and MCP contexts | ⚠️ Addresses authentication indirectly via Zero Trust validation and behavioral enforcement rather than acting as an auth provider |
| Secrets | ✅ Vault‑agnostic secrets management: discovery, rotation, TTL, and integration with HashiCorp, cloud KMS, CyberArk | ✅ Strong focus on secrets, API keys, tokens, and unmanaged credentials across legacy + AI workloads | ✅ Secrets discovery and protection, but emphasis is on minimizing reliance on long‑lived secrets via Zero Trust & ephemerality |
| Authorization | ✅ Purpose‑ and intent‑based authorization, rightsizing permissions and enforcing least privilege dynamically | ✅ Fine‑grained access control and right‑sizing for AI agents and NHIs | ✅ Enforces least‑privilege scopes and operational boundaries using contextual policy enforcement [ |
| Policy | ✅ Centralized policy engine spanning lifecycle, access duration, rotation, and compliance controls | ⚠️ Policy exists, but more embedded into detection/control logic than exposed as a central IAM‑style policy layer | ✅ Strong Zero Trust policy engine designed specifically for NHIs, continuously validating legitimacy |
| Monitoring | ✅ Continuous monitoring of NHI posture, usage, risk, and agent behavior with audit evidence | ✅ Strong monitoring and observability of AI agent actions and NHI usage (big‑data driven) | ✅ Real‑time behavioral monitoring, anomaly detection, and detection & response for NHIs |
| Governance | ✅ Governance‑first design: ownership, approvals, audit trails, compliance evidence baked into lifecycle | ⚠️ Governance is present but lighter; positioned more for security visibility/control than formal IGA‑style governance | ✅ Strong governance orientation with posture, risk prioritization, remediation playbooks, and Zero Trust alignment |
| Integrations | ✅ Broad integrations: cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), SaaS, GitHub, ServiceNow, Terraform, vaults, Entra, Okta, Ping | ✅ Integrates with cloud, AI platforms, chat/LLM tools, and security workflows | ✅ Wide ecosystem integrations plus SIEM/SOAR, SOC tooling, and automation pipelines |
High‑Level Positioning Summary
- Oasis Security → Most complete NHI lifecycle + governance platform
Best fit when clients want IGA‑like rigor, provisioning controls, auditability, and strong alignment to Entra / ServiceNow / Terraform–centric environments. - Token Security → AI‑agent and NHI visibility + control specialist
Strongest where the priority is AI agent sprawl, secrets exposure, and operational risk rather than formal governance workflows. - Clutch Security → Zero Trust & detection‑driven NHI security leader
Best fit for organizations seeking continuous validation, risk reduction, and detection/response, with less reliance on traditional secrets rotation models.
Common scenarios
Best for enterprise NHI program buildout
Choose Oasis Security when the goal is to stand up a formal NHI program with discovery, lifecycle automation, policy enforcement, and remediation in a single platform. It is the strongest fit for organizations looking to build a dedicated operating model for machine identities and AI identities.
Best for ownership and least privilege
Choose Token Security when the priority is reducing privilege sprawl, assigning clear owners, and enforcing purpose-based controls across NHIs and AI agents.
It is especially relevant for mature teams trying to operationalize governance rather than merely inventory credentials.
Best for deep ecosystem context
Choose Clutch when the environment spans cloud, SaaS, code, CI/CD, vaults, RPA, and data platforms, and the team needs lineage and relationship mapping to understand exposure.
Clutch is particularly strong where the question is not only "what exists?" but "how is it connected, who owns it, and what can it touch?"
Conclusion
The market is moving from secret visibility toward full identity governance. The winning platforms combine continuous discovery, lineage, policy, monitoring, and integrations rather than relying on a single point control such as secret scanning or periodic rotation.
For most enterprises, the right choice will come down to whether the primary need is a dedicated NHI operating platform, AI-agent control, or NHI coverage within a broader identity-security suite.