# Your Infrastructure Has a Non-Human Trust Problem

DevFeed: [Your Infrastructure Has a Non-Human Trust Problem](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/your-infrastructure-has-a-non-human-trust-problem-29982.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://goteleport.com/blog/your-infrastructure-has-a-non-human-trust-problem/>)

Author: jack.pitts@goteleport.com (Jack Pitts)

Published: 2025-06-04T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Teleport](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/teleport.md>)

Topics: [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [cloud security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-security.md>), [Zero Trust](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/zero-trust.md>), [CI/CD](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cicd.md>), [GitHub Actions](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github-actions.md>), [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>), [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>), [GitLab](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gitlab.md>), [Jenkins](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/jenkins.md>)

Tags: [agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent.md>), [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [auditability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/auditability.md>), [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [ci-cd](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ci-cd.md>), [cloud-security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-security.md>), [credentials](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/credentials.md>), [github-actions](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github-actions.md>), [gitlab](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gitlab.md>), [jenkins](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/jenkins.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>), [secrets](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/secrets.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [token](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/token.md>), [tokens](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tokens.md>), [zero-trust](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/zero-trust.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how non-human identities, including bots, CI/CD runners, and AI-driven automation, can create cloud security and resiliency risks when they use static credentials and excessive permissions. It presents Teleport Machine & Workload Identity as a way to use short-lived, scoped cryptographic credentials and reviews CI/CD deployment to Kubernetes as an example.

## Source excerpt

Non-human identities are a major cloud security risk. Learn how to eliminate static credentials, enforce zero trust, and secure machine-to-machine access.