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If you work in IT for a medium-sized regulated business, you already know the truth: Your Microsoft environment didn’t become sprawling overnight. It grew through mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, reorganizations and the natural evolution of a business that’s constantly adapting. Every new business unit brought its own domain. Every acquisition added another tenant. Every project introduced new accounts, groups and privileges.

Safeguard 9.0 by One Identity is now available, built around three things privileged access teams care about most: less infrastructure to manage, a stronger case to bring to auditors, and coverage that reaches further into the systems your teams already rely on. Here's what's new.

Non-human identities (NHIs) are not new. We have run service accounts, scripts and machine credentials for years. What changed is the population. Every automation project and every AI investment adds more of them, and they now sit in the foreground of the security conversation, versus the background. You have probably seen the ratios in every deck on the topic. One hundred NHIs per human. Two hundred to one. Pick a number. The point in this session was that the exact ratio does not matter much anymore.

Every year, higher education hits the same beats. New students show up in the fall, ready to begin their undergraduate career. Staff and faculty come and go on their own timelines, some tenured for decades and others moving on after a single semester. Every spring, graduates ring in a new chapter, crossing the stage after years of hard-won achievements. Then there’s visiting researchers and affiliated partners, collaborating all throughout the academic year.

Identities in the modern enterprise are increasingly less human and more autonomous, powered by the rise in AI agents, APIs and other non-human identities (NHIs). The result is often an entitlement sprawl, where operations take place without human oversight and with privileged access. This non-linear evolution has meant many businesses have had to respond using bolted-on tools, rather than one unified, enterprise-grade platform.

Over 300 million people rely on Microsoft Teams to get their work done every day. That’s a lot of messages, meetings and “you’re on mute” moments happening every day. Teams makes it easy to collaborate. Too easy, sometimes. Anyone can create a new channel, add users and start sharing files in minutes. That’s great for getting work done, but it’s also how things get out of control. If you manage Teams, you’ve probably seen this happen.