The Silent Majority of Identity: Why Non-Human Identities Are Becoming an Existential Problem

December 29, 2025

Most organizations still treat identity as something that belongs to people. But in modern environments, humans are already the minority. Service accounts, service principals, API registrations, managed identities, workloads, device identities, and IoT identities now make up the overwhelming majority of actors inside enterprise environments. These are all non-human identities (NHIs), and they already outnumber […]

Part 3: CyberArk vs BeyondTrust Password Safe — What Really Makes Them Different

December 11, 2025

Most vendor comparisons feel like marketing sheets: checkboxes, features, bold claims, and not much substance. The truth is that CyberArk and BeyondTrust Password Safe both solve privileged access problems, but they do it from completely different mental models. CyberArk is structured, governed, and policy driven. BeyondTrust is automated, appliance driven, and heavily dependent on identity […]

Part 2: CyberArk vs BeyondTrust (BeyondTrust)

December 11, 2025

BeyondTrust Password Safe takes a different approach to privileged access than CyberArk. Instead of structuring governance around Safes and platform policies, Password Safe organizes the world into managed systems, the privileged accounts that live on them, and an automation engine called Smart Rules that decides how everything should be classified, onboarded, and assigned. The platform […]

Part 1: CyberArk VS BeyondTrust (CyberArk)

December 10, 2025

When people talk about “CyberArk vs BeyondTrust,” they usually go straight to feature checklists or licensing. I think it is more useful to start with how CyberArk actually thinks about privileged access. At its core, CyberArk is built around three ideas: Safes to logically contain secrets, CPM (Central Policy Manager) to manage passwords, and PSM […]

Privileged Access Management (PAM): What It Is, What It Does, and Why Deployments Fail

November 28, 2025

Privileged Access Management (PAM) is one of the most critical pillars of enterprise security, designed to protect the accounts, credentials, and access pathways that attackers target first. PAM helps organizations control, monitor, and secure privileged identities whether they belong to administrators, service accounts, applications, or automation pipelines. By rotating passwords, enforcing check-out workflows, brokering connections, […]