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Service Accounts Were a Shortcut—Now They’re a Liability. It’s time to go Accountless.

Service accounts are over-permissioned and insecure. Learn how accountless identity reduces risk and secures non-human actors in modern cloud environments.

When AI Knew Too Much: A Cautionary Tale About Agentic Systems Without Guardrails

Agentic AI is acting without identity or guardrails — risking IP leaks and insider access. Here’s what CISOs and security teams need to know.

Wiz’s Base44 Vulnerability Findings Spotlight a Fixable Gap: Non-Human Identity

Wiz uncovered a critical Base44 vulnerability. Here's why non-human identity is the missing control—and how to fix it before it leads to a breach exposed platforms—and why verifiable, runtime identity is the fix.

Another Day, Another Leaked API Key — This Time, It’s xAI

A leaked xAI API key posted to GitHub granted public access to 50+ LLMs. This incident highlights the risks of static credentials—and why machine identity is the fix.

McDonald’s McHire Breach Shows Why APIs Need Non-Human Identity and Strong Auth

A default password and unauthenticated API exposed 64M McDonald’s job applicants. We break down what went wrong—and how Non-Human Identity and workload authentication could’ve prevented it.

Want Control Over Secrets? Start with Your Strategic Control Point: CI/CD.

CI/CD is the gateway to your infrastructure—and your secrets problem. Learn why it’s the smartest place to start replacing secrets with identity.

Secret Sprawl: Understand It To Reduce Your Risk

Secret sprawl exposes your org to breaches. Learn why managing identity—not secrets—is the only way to secure non-human access across apps, CI/CD, and cloud.

Asana’s MCP Bug Wasn’t Unique — It Was a Sign of What’s Coming

AI integration is accelerating — but most systems lack guardrails. Learn how the Asana bug signals a deeper need for machine identity and access control.

AI’s Security Problem Isn’t AI — It’s Everything Around It

Agentic AI exposes the hidden risks in legacy systems. Learn why outdated access models—not AI—pose the greatest threat to your enterprise security.

NHI, Agentic AI & the Future of Identity: Recapping Identiverse 2025

Explore highlights from Identiverse 2025, including NHI visibility, Agentic AI risks, CI/CD security, and why identity must lead the way in modern security.

The Rise of AI Agents Is an Identity Crisis in Disguise

AI agents are multiplying—and each one needs a secure identity. Learn why API keys won't cut it and how to scale non-human identity the right way.

KuppingerCole Recognizes SPIRL as a 2025 Rising Star in Non-Human Identity Security

Grok’s Key Leak Proves It: Static Secrets Don’t Belong in Code

The xAI GitHub leak proves it: static secrets are a liability. Learn why it's time to replace secrets with non-human identity—and how to do it fast.

Agentic AI Without Secrets, Part 3 – Making it Real

Learn how to protect AI workloads with real-time, secretless authentication. No static credentials, just verifiable identity and zero trust.

Securing AI Agents in the Real World: A Case Study - Part 2 of 3

Agentic AI - Just Another Day in the Workload Identity Office. Part 1 of 3

Agentic AI is here—and it’s changing everything. Discover why traditional identity models can’t secure autonomous AI agents and how a workload identity-first approach offers a better path forward. Part 1 of our 3-part series on securing Agentic AI.

Workload Identity - Key Takeaways from IETF 122

Explore the latest standards shaping workload identity, OAuth, and AI authentication from IETF 122 — including WIMSE, credential exchange, and more.

It’s 2025. Let’s Talk About Secrets Sprawl

Secrets sprawl is growing, with 23.8M leaked credentials in 2025. Learn why identity-first authentication with SPIFFE & WIMSE is the key to securing workloads.

Join us at IETF Bangkok

Catch-up on the latest on workload identity standards with Pieter Kasselman at IETF 122 Bangkok March 17-21, 2025.

SPIRL Wins Big: Triple Winner in the 2025 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards

Lessons from the Snowflake Breach: Moving Past the Age of Secrets

Snowflake, one of the world’s larger cloud data storage providers, announced in January that it would be taking a more proactive approach to securing customer access. Snowflake calls it the “Shared Destiny” model, to contrast with the “Shared Responsibility” model that Snowflake, and other cloud providers, have long used.

"Don't break prod," and why your secrets are future outages

Discover how enterprises manage 20-45x more machine secrets than human passwords, the risks this poses, and how SPIFFE technology offers a path forward for secure workload identity management.

AI Security Begins with Workload Identity

Discover how workload identity strengthens AI security by ensuring precise access control and compliance. Learn why identity-first security is key to protecting AI systems from evolving threats.

Non-Human Identity Misconceptions: Secrets are not Identities

OWASP's "Non-Human Identities Top 10" list reflects outdated industry practices. Learn how modern NHI providers using open standards mitigate or eliminate 80% of these security risks.

KubeCon 2024 highlights demand for workload identity solutions

At KubeCon 2024 in Salt Lake City, SPIRL team members gave a talk on SPIFFE deployments and workload identity management across multi-cloud environments. The conference emphasized security and AI challenges. Other team members engaged with attendees through booth discussions and technical deep-dives.

KubeCon update: Meet the team at your convenience!

Our team will present on the conference floor and help staff the SPIFFE booth throughout the event.

Workload Identity: A Problem Made for Standards!

SPIRL’s strength lies in its alignment with the SPIFFE standard, creating predictable system operations that the IETF’s WIMSE group is now expanding by uniting SPIFFE, OAuth, and JWT into a future-proof foundation for workload identity.

Workload identity's past and future: SPIRL's KubeCon 2024 Deep dives

Join SPIRL at KubeCon North America 2024 in Salt Lake City! Catch insights from our co-founders and team on workload identity and SPIFFE deployments beyond Kubernetes, and stop by the SPIFFE booth to connect with us in person.

Shift from Certificate Management to Credential Management

Automating credential lifecycles, as seen in systems like SPIFFE and Kerberos, turns complex certificate management into a seamless, background process—reducing downtime and eliminating manual renewals for a more secure, resilient infrastructure.

Join us at Cloud Native Security Con 2024

For the past few years, the CNCF, part of the Linux Foundation, has hosted the Cloud Native Security Conference, a key gathering focused on.

Why Multi-Factor Authentication for Workloads is a Critical Security Control

Recent breaches among Snowflake customers highlight the critical need for strong security measures to protect data and infrastructure.

How to construct SPIFFE IDs

Today, let’s dive into the essentials of constructing SPIFFE IDs and ensuring your workloads have unique, consistent identities.

Simplifying SPIFFE: Accessible Workload Identity with SPIRL

Discover how this SPIFFE-based workload identity solution is designed to truly bring secure identity to everyone. What exactly is SPIFFE, and how can it expand to encompass ‘everyone’ even more?

Hello World

Over the last six years, technology practitioners and the industry at large have been going through a massive paradigm shift in the way that we think about defensive security.