# Hydden > Built for reality. Hydden gives security teams one record of every human, non-human identity and AI agent. Every page below also has a markdown version at the same address with .md added (the homepage is /index.md). ## Product - [Why Hydden | Identity Security](https://www.hydden.ai/why-hydden): Hydden gives security teams one record of every human, non-human identity and AI agent. - [Discovery](https://www.hydden.ai/platform/discovery): Hydden gives security teams a record of every human, non-human identity and AI agent across the systems they run. Each one is classified and tied to an owner. - [Observability](https://www.hydden.ai/platform/observability): Hydden gives security teams a record of every access change for humans, non-human identities and AI agents. - [Control](https://www.hydden.ai/platform/control): Hydden gives security teams a way to grant, check and remove access for every human, non-human identity and AI agent. - [Agent Studio](https://www.hydden.ai/platform/agent-studio): Hydden gives security teams Agent Studio to build alerts and remediations on Hydden's identity system of record data. - [Identity System of Record](https://www.hydden.ai/platform/system-of-record): Hydden gives security teams one record that reconciles every human, non-human identity and AI agent across their systems. ## Solutions - [Identity Security Solutions](https://www.hydden.ai/solutions): Hydden gives security teams one record for privileged access, governance, reviews and the SOC. - [Identity Governance](https://www.hydden.ai/solutions/iga): Hydden gives identity teams a complete record of every human, non-human identity and AI agent for the governance tools they run. - [Privileged Access Management](https://www.hydden.ai/solutions/pam): Hydden gives security teams the privileged humans, non-human identities and AI agents that sit outside the vault. - [Identity Security Posture](https://www.hydden.ai/solutions/ispm): Hydden gives security teams the privilege and ownership of every human, non-human identity and AI agent. - [Identity Threat Detection and Response](https://www.hydden.ai/solutions/itdr): Hydden gives the SOC a record of identity access changes for humans, non-human identities and AI agents. - [Non-Human Identity](https://www.hydden.ai/solutions/nhi): Hydden gives security teams every non-human identity, with the human owner and the access it holds. Orphaned keys and service accounts can be found and retired. - [Identity Operations Center](https://www.hydden.ai/solutions/identity-operations-center): Hydden gives identity operations one record of every human, non-human identity and AI agent. The team can grant, check and remove access from that record. - [Local Accounts](https://www.hydden.ai/solutions/local-accounts): Hydden gives security teams the local accounts that sit outside lifecycle tools and the vault. - [Cyber Insurance](https://www.hydden.ai/solutions/cyber-insurance): Hydden gives security teams a current record of privileged humans, non-human identities and AI agents. - [IGA and PAM](https://www.hydden.ai/solutions/mature-iga-pam): Hydden gives the IGA and PAM tools you already run a complete record of every human, non-human identity and AI agent. - [Automated Access Reviews](https://www.hydden.ai/solutions/automated-access-reviews): Hydden gives reviewers a current record of access for every app, human, non-human identity and AI agent. - [Identity Data for the SOC](https://www.hydden.ai/solutions/identity-into-soc): Hydden gives the SOC identity change from systems that do not log it themselves. - [Privileged Access Changes](https://www.hydden.ai/solutions/privileged-access-changes): Hydden gives security teams a record of privileged access changes as they happen. - [Mergers and Acquisitions](https://www.hydden.ai/solutions/m-and-a): Hydden gives security teams one record of the humans, non-human identities and AI agents in an acquired environment. - [Least Privilege](https://www.hydden.ai/solutions/least-privilege): Hydden gives security teams the standing access each human, non-human identity and AI agent holds. Unused access on the riskiest accounts can be removed. - [Audit and Compliance](https://www.hydden.ai/solutions/audit-compliance): Hydden gives audit teams a current record of who can reach each system, including non-human identities and AI agents. - [AI Agent Security](https://www.hydden.ai/solutions/ai-agent-security): Hydden gives security teams a record of every AI agent, the identity it runs as and the person who owns it. ## Ecosystem and partners - [Integration Ecosystem](https://www.hydden.ai/ecosystem): Hydden integrates with every identity system in your environment. 40+ out-of-the-box integrations across cloud, IAM, PAM, IGA, apps, and infrastructure. - [Partner program](https://www.hydden.ai/partners): Technology partners, SIs, advisory firms and MSSPs use Hydden to give customers one record of every identity, including NHIs and AI agents. - [Palo Alto Networks and Idira (CyberArk) | Hydden partnerships](https://www.hydden.ai/partners/alliances): Hydden partnerships with Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSIAM and Idira (CyberArk). Identity event stream, content pack, and privileged discovery. ## Company - [About Hydden](https://www.hydden.ai/about): Hydden gives security teams one record of every human, non-human identity and AI agent. ## Get started - [Resources](https://www.hydden.ai/resources): Hydden gives security teams research, guides and briefs on humans, non-human identities and AI agents. - [Book a Demo](https://www.hydden.ai/book-a-demo): See how Hydden can unify your identity data. Book a personalized demo with our team of identity security experts. - [Request a Free Trial](https://www.hydden.ai/try-free): Take charge of your Identity Attack Surface with Hydden. Request a free trial and see your full identity environment in days. ## Definitions - [What Is Privileged Access Management (PAM)?](https://www.hydden.ai/what-is-pam) - [What Is Identity Governance and Administration (IGA)?](https://www.hydden.ai/what-is-iga) - [What Is Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM)?](https://www.hydden.ai/what-is-ispm): Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM) defined: identity hygiene scoring, risk prioritization, and compliance mapping across a known set of identities. - [What Is Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR)?](https://www.hydden.ai/what-is-itdr) - [What Is a Non-Human Identity (NHI)?](https://www.hydden.ai/what-is-nhi) - [What Is Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM)?](https://www.hydden.ai/what-is-ciem) - [What Is Zero Standing Privilege (ZSP)?](https://www.hydden.ai/what-is-zero-standing-privilege): Zero Standing Privilege (ZSP) and just-in-time (JIT) access defined: time-boxed, automatically revoked elevation instead of persistent standing admin rights. - [What Is Identity Lifecycle Management?](https://www.hydden.ai/what-is-identity-lifecycle-management) - [What Is a Shadow Admin Account?](https://www.hydden.ai/what-is-shadow-admin): Shadow admin and orphaned account defined: privileged access that sits outside the PAM vault and the IGA inventory, invisible to both by construction. - [What Is Access Certification?](https://www.hydden.ai/what-is-access-certification) - [What Is Segregation of Duties (SoD)?](https://www.hydden.ai/what-is-segregation-of-duties) - [What Is Agentic Identity?](https://www.hydden.ai/what-is-agentic-identity) - [What Is an Identity Operations Center (IOC)?](https://www.hydden.ai/what-is-ioc): An Identity Operations Center (IOC) defined: the operational team, dashboard, and workflow that triages identity risk daily instead of during a periodic audit. - [What Is Identity Attack Surface Management (IASM)?](https://www.hydden.ai/what-is-iasm) - [What Is an Identity Risk Score?](https://www.hydden.ai/what-is-identity-risk-score): An identity risk score defined: how the metric is built from posture signals, what it’s used for, and why it’s only as accurate as the inventory feeding it. - [What Is a Service Account?](https://www.hydden.ai/what-is-service-account): A service account defined: what it’s used for, why it’s typically long-lived and rarely rotated, and the ownership gap that makes it a persistent risk category. - [What Is an API Key?](https://www.hydden.ai/what-is-api-key-management): An API key defined: what it authenticates, why it’s a leading Non-Human Identity risk category, and what API key management actually requires. - [What Is a Workload Identity?](https://www.hydden.ai/what-is-workload-identity) - [What Is M&A Identity Risk?](https://www.hydden.ai/what-is-ma-identity-risk) - [What Is a Local Account?](https://www.hydden.ai/what-is-local-accounts): A local account defined: why it exists outside the IdP and PAM vault, and why it’s one of the largest blind spots in most identity programs. - [Passive vs. Active Discovery: What’s the Difference?](https://www.hydden.ai/passive-vs-active-discovery) - [What Is an Identity Graph?](https://www.hydden.ai/what-is-identity-graph) - [Identity Security Glossary](https://www.hydden.ai/glossary): Neutral, vendor-agnostic definitions for identity security terms: IVIP, PAM, IGA, ISPM, ITDR, non-human identity, CIEM, and the categories around them. ## Current resources - [Non-Human Identity, By the Numbers](https://www.hydden.ai/nhi-by-the-numbers): Machine identities outnumber humans roughly 50 to 1, and 20-40% of enterprise identities never pass through IGA. - [Whatever You Call an AI Agent, It Runs as an Identity](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/ai-agent-runs-as-an-identity): Every team defines AI agents differently, but every agent runs as an identity with access. - [The MTTR Clock Starts Too Late](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/mttr-clock-starts-too-late): In an identity-originated incident the causal event is an authorization change made months before any sensor fires. - [The Missing Context Layer in Identity](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/identity-context-layer): Access changes between the systems that approve it and the systems that watch for misuse. - [Incident Response Is Paying for Identity Data Now](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/incident-response-is-paying-for-identity-data): Identity spend competes with other identity spend and loses. The answers that stall an investigation are identity answers, and IR is measured on them. - [Why One Identity Question Takes Two Days to Answer](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/why-identity-questions-take-two-days): Identity answers get assembled by hand while the clock runs. Audit preparation stalls on the same three questions, and DORA measures the deadline in hours. - [Why Access Reviews at Banks Fail an Audit](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/why-access-reviews-at-banks-fail-an-audit): Banks have the most mature identity governance deployments of any industry, and their auditors still come back saying the list of accounts is incomplete. - [Your SOC Cannot Close an Identity Alert Without the IAM Team](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/identity-context-on-the-alert): An identity alert gives an analyst a name and almost nothing else. Every question that decides whether it matters lives in another team's system. - [IGA, PAM and IdP Are Not the System of Record](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/iga-pam-and-idp-are-not-the-system-of-record): IGA, PAM and the IdP are each the authority in their own category. None of them can hold every identity. Here is why the record has to live outside those tools. - [The Identities Your HRIS, IdP, IGA and PAM Never See](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/how-your-hris-idp-iga-and-pam-never-see-accounts): Your HRIS says she left Tuesday. IGA disabled her Thursday and the review came back clean. She can still SSH to the jump host. Nothing keeps the whole story. - [Identity Built Detection Before It Could See](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/identity-built-detection-before-it-could-see): Identity built detection before it could see. ITDR, ISPM and IVIP each arrived before the record they depend on. Here is the order that actually works. - [The Five Requirements of an Identity System of Record](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/identity-system-of-record-five-requirements): Complete continuous capture, reconciliation, change history, neutrality and a way to act. Whichever property you are missing tells you which project is stuck. - [Build Your Identity System of Record](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/build-your-identity-system-of-record): Sales has the CRM and finance has the general ledger. Ask an identity team where the identities live and you get a list of systems, with no record underneath. - [Ask Your Identity Data Better Questions](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/ask-your-identity-data-better-questions): A report answers the question somebody thought to ask last quarter. A record of every change answers the question you have right now, and starts the fix. - [Not Everything You Discover Belongs in the Vault](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/not-everything-you-discover-belongs-in-the-vault): Two accounts with identical rights can warrant opposite decisions. Activity data routes each one to its correct disposition, and vaulting is only one of five. - [Your Scan Found the Account. Now Who Owns It?](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/your-scan-found-the-account-now-who-owns-it): A discovery scan proves a privileged account exists but not who owns it. Owner attribution is a correlation problem across systems, and Hydden automates it. - [Stop Rubber-Stamping Access Reviews](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/stop-rubber-stamping-access-reviews): Hundreds of privileged Oracle accounts look equally justified, so the batch gets rubber-stamped. Hydden approves the peer pattern and flags only the outliers. - [How Clean Data Powers Automated Access Reviews](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/how-clean-data-powers-automated-access-reviews): Bad schema mapping never throws an error. It quietly produces empty access reviews and misrouted approvals. Learn why mapping decides what you can automate. - [Why CyberIAM Uses Hydden to Accelerate Idira Engagements](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/cyberiam-hydden-idira-engagements): CyberIAM uses Hydden's discovery, observability, and control data to decide what Idira should manage, and whether to vault or make each account ephemeral. - [How Do You Know Your Identity Data Is Right?](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/how-do-you-know-your-identity-data-is-right): Access reviews, audits, and vault verification only hold up if the underlying identity data is accurate. Here is how attestation makes it provable. - [Why PAM Migrations Never End](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/why-pam-migrations-never-end): PAM migrations don't stall at the new platform, they stall at decommissioning the old one. - [Why Pre-Built Connectors Leave Your Identity Coverage Incomplete](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/pre-built-connectors-identity-coverage): Most identity programs run into the same limit, and it shows up well before anyone reaches a certification campaign. - [Identity Tools Run on Data. Most Are Running on the Wrong Kind.](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/your-identity-tools-are-only-as-good-as-the-data-behind-them): Hydden sits above your identity stack as the activity data layer your PAM, IGA, and IAM tools have always been missing. - [Behavior Is the Missing Signal in NHI Access Reviews](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/behavior-is-the-missing-signal-in-nhi-access-reviews): Discovery surfaces NHI accounts. Behavioral classification tells you what they are. Without both, access reviews stay manual and incomplete. - [Privileged Is Not a Universal Definition](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/privileged-is-not-a-universal-definition): Privileged means something different in every enterprise. Your PAM program is only as accurate as the classification logic that built it. - [Certifying What Lives in Your Vaults](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/certifying-what-lives-in-your-vaults): Hydden Certifications give regulated institutions a structured, auditable process for validating privileged accounts in PAM vaults. - [Active vs. Static Identity Risks](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/two-types-of-identity-risk): Two types of identity risk: static findings you can schedule, and active violations happening now. Know which ones cannot wait. - [The Shift to Non-Human Identity (NHI) Governance](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/the-shift-to-nhi-governance): Governance programs were built for human identities. NHIs now dominate privileged access, a fundamental shift is required. - [Why ISPM and ITDR Never Scaled](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/why-ispm-and-itdr-never-scaled): The tools were right about the problem. The data underneath them was wrong. That's why ISPM and ITDR never scaled. - [The Identity Data Problem](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/the-identity-data-problem): The data running your identity program has always been wrong. AI agents just closed the window on deferring the fix. - [Governance Needs Flexibility, Not More Connectors](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/identity-mapping-with-univeral-collector-ai): Most teams skip identity mapping because it's too manual. - [How Identity Intelligence Drives Telecom Regulatory Compliance](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/how-identity-intelligence-drives-telecom-regulatory-compliance): Over the past five years, telecom security regulation has shifted from guidelines to mandates. - [Moving from Standing to Ephemeral Privileges](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/moving-from-standing-to-ephemeral-privileges) - [How to Give Your SOC the Identity Context It Needs](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/how-to-give-your-soc-the-identity-context-it-needs) - [Banks Are Scaling Faster Than Their Privileged Access Controls](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/banks-are-scaling-faster-than-their-privileged-access-controls): In regulated banking, your security controls are only as good as your ability to defend them. - [Stop Missing Privileged Accounts in Your CyberArk Deployment](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/stop-missing-privileged-accounts-in-cyberark-deployments): Your CyberArk deployment protects the privileged accounts it knows about. The problem? It doesn’t know about all of them. - [Identity Security in a 20,000+ User Organization](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/the-technical-reality-of-identity-security-in-large-organizations): There is a recurring theme in every “Top Cybersecurity Trends for 2026” list: Back to the Basics. - [General Solution Brief](https://www.hydden.ai/briefs/general-solution-brief): A two-page overview of how Hydden discovers and normalizes identities across an environment. - [Hydden for IGA](https://www.hydden.ai/briefs/hydden-for-iga): A two-page brief on onboarding disconnected and legacy applications to an existing IGA platform. - [Hydden for PAM](https://www.hydden.ai/briefs/hydden-for-pam): A two-page brief on privileged account discovery for PAM programs. - [Hydden + CyberArk Solution Brief](https://www.hydden.ai/briefs/hydden-cyberark-solution-brief): A joint brief on using Hydden with CyberArk Privileged Access Manager and CyberArk Modern IGA. - [Identity Attack Surface Management](https://www.hydden.ai/guides/iasm-visibility-drives-security): A best practice guide to identity attack surface management (IASM). - [Beyond the Blind Spots: A New Era of Identity Visibility](https://www.hydden.ai/guides/beyond-the-blind-spots-unlocking-a-new-era-of-identity-visibility): A best practice guide on identity blind spots and how continuous discovery closes them. ## Optional - [Accelerate Your Migration to CyberArk PAM](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/accelerate-your-migration-to-cyberark-pam) - [Why Access Reviews Have Become Corporate Theater](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/why-access-reviews-have-become-corporate-theater-and-what-to-do-about-it) - [The Future of Identity Governance](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/the-future-of-identity-governance) - [Hydden Control: AI-Powered Identity Governance Is Here](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/ai-powered-identity-governance-is-here) - [Audit-Ready Identity Data for IAM, PAM, IGA and XDR](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/audit-ready-identity-data) - [When ‘Platform’ Means Everything and Nothing In IAM](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/whats-in-a-platform) - [The Realities of Going Passwordless](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/the-realities-of-going-passwordless) - [The IAM Status Quo is Failing Enterprise Security](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/why-iam-status-quo-is-failing-enterprise-security) - [Beyond the Alert: How IASM gives Actionable Context to XDR](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/beyond-the-alert-how-iasm-gives-actionable-context-to-xdr) - [How PAM and IGA Platforms Miss Critical Identity Terrain](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/whats-being-missed-by-pam-and-iga-solutions) - [Control IGA Chaos with a Data-Driven Approach](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/control-iga-chaos) - [The Lifecycle of an Identity Attack](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/the-lifecycle-of-an-identity-attack) - [Measuring the ROI of Proactive Identity Attack Surface Management](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/measuring-the-roi-of-proactive-identity-attack-surface-management-iasm) - [Top Challenges in Scaling Your PAM Practice](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/scaling-your-pam-practice) - [The Hidden Risks of Identity Security in Aviation](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/the-hidden-risks-of-identity-security-in-aviation) - [How M&A Activity Increases Identity Risks](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/how-ma-activity-increases-identity-risks) - [How Vulnerabilities Fuel Identity Attacks](https://www.hydden.ai/research/exploit-to-exfiltration-how-vulnerabilities-fuel-identity-attacks) - [Software Analyst Cyber Research Report](https://www.hydden.ai/research/software-analyst-cyber-research-analyst-report) - [Are You Under Attack?](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/are-you-under-attack-early-warning-signs-of-identity-compromise) - [The Importance of Visibility in Identity Security](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/discovery-for-pam-and-iga) - [Identity Attack Surface Management (IASM)](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/identity-attack-surface-management) - [Scattered Spider: Identity Insights](https://www.hydden.ai/research/scattered-spider-identity-insights) - [Practical Guide to Implementing Continuous Discovery](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/practical-guide-to-implementing-continuous-discovery) - [Continuous Discovery: The New Standard for IAM Teams](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/continuous-discovery-the-new-standard-for-iam-and-identity-security-teams) - [What is Identity Attack Surface Management (IASM)?](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/what-is-identity-attack-surface-management-iasm) - [False Peaks: How to know when your identity management is enough](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/false-peaks-how-to-know-when-your-identity-management-is-enough) - [NHIs Are Only Part of the Identity Visibility Problem](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/non-human-identities-nhis-are-only-a-part-of-the-identity-visibility-problem) - [The Vital Role of Multi-Factor Authentication](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/unlocking-security-the-vital-role-of-multi-factor-authentication-mfa-for-all-identities-everywhere) - [Modern Incident Response Begins Well Before the Incident](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/immediate-is-too-late-modern-incident-response-begins-well-before-the-incident) - [United Healthcare Attack and Foundational Identity Hygiene](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/united-healthcare-attack-underscores-importance-of-foundational-identity-hygiene) - [Back to Basics: Identity and Access Management](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/back-to-basics-identity-and-access-management) - [IAM Foundations: Unpacking Identity Threat Detection & Response](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/iam-foundations-unpacking-identity-threat-detection-response-itdr) - [Exploiting Poor Identity Hygiene](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/exploiting-poor-identity-hygiene-a-cyber-attackers-perspective) - [Intro to Authentication and Authorization](https://www.hydden.ai/blog/intro-to-authentication-and-authorization)