Prepping for Agentic AI: Why We Created the NHI Management Fundamentals Certification

In every conversation we have with CISOs, IAM leaders, and security practitioners, the same theme comes up: how can we adopt AI without making security an afterthought?

As agentic adoption accelerates, identity security has shifted from an IT challenge to a board-level priority, commanding unprecedented urgency, visibility, and investment. With non-human identities (NHIs) powering agentic access, this shift places new expectations on IAM teams: govern access at scale, enforce standardized agent policies, and deliver secure, agentic access at business velocity. 

‍The answer: Master the foundations, align on a framework, then automate with the right solution that can handle the velocity and scale.

Today we are presenting the first step in the journey to stay ahead of the AI curve: Master the foundations.  

The team at Oasis created an industry-first Non-Human Identity Management Fundamentals Certification as the pillar of a smarter, more connected identity community. It’s more than a course, it’s a hands-on, education-driven program designed to give practitioners the knowledge and tools to govern the non-human identities powering modern enterprise systems.

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Preparing for the Age of Agentic AI

Agentic AI accelerates how work gets done. Every action an agent takes, whether it’s pulling data, calling an API, or committing code, runs under an identity. But traditional IAM wasn’t built for this world.

Agents can be created by anyone, anywhere. They multiply at machine speed without ownership, expiry, or consistent governance. Legacy controls can’t consistently enforce short‑lived, purpose‑bound access at scale, creating visibility, enforcement, and audit gaps just as adoption surges. 

Identity is the only universal enforcement point across environments, enabling secure, fast AI adoption and transforming IAM from blocker to accelerator.

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Why this certification, why now

Organizations are adopting agentic AI faster than IAM can adapt. The gap is clear: no common language, no consistent framework, and no scalable tools to govern non-human identities across platforms. The NHI Management Fundamentals Certification is our first step to close that gap, giving leaders and practitioners a shared foundation to govern agentic access with confidence.

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What the NHI Management Fundamentals Certification Delivers

Designed with practitioners who’ve secured complex enterprise environments, the program gives you skills you can use immediately. It provides:

• A maturity model for benchmarking your NHI program.
• A structured framework for NHI lifecycle. 
• Real-world scenarios drawn from cloud, SaaS, CI/CD, and AI environments.
• Vendor-neutral training, no product lock-in, no sales pitch.
• Professional recognition: A digital badge, and a certificate you can showcase.

And most importantly: it’s designed for everyone. Whether you’re an identity practitioner enabling access management, a security engineer automating secret rotation, a compliance officer mapping controls to frameworks, or a CISO preparing for AI-driven transformation, you’ll gain the skills and common language needed to lead.

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Join the Community

Our goal isn’t just to secure AI. It’s to empower people with the tools and knowledge to lead in this moment. The NHI Management Fundamentals Certification is the first step in that journey.

If you’ve been waiting for a community-driven initiative that helps you learn, lead, and get better, this is for you.

‍Sign up to get certified here.