For years, cybersecurity strategies have focused on people. From employees and contractors to partners and insiders, that familiar ‘humans are the weakest link’ rhetoric has defined the industry for decades. The tools and strategies developed to defend against threats, like access management and identity governance, were largely designed with humans in mind. But as artificial intelligence (AI), automation, and cloud-native architectures accelerate, a more dominant kind of workforce has quietly emerged. Non-Human Identities (NHIs), the digital identities assigned to machines, applications, and automated processes, now vastly outnumber employees in most enterprises, reshaping the security landscape in ways many organisations have…
Shane Barney
Shane Barney
Shane Barney joined Keeper Security as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) in May 2025, bringing with him more than two decades of cybersecurity leadership in both the public and private sectors. Prior to joining Keeper, Barney dedicated 20 years to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), serving within the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) as both a contractor and federal employee. He began his career at USCIS in the Office of Security and Integrity (OSI), where he played a pivotal role standing up the agency’s national operations center and building DHS’s first classified system. He also collaborated closely with the intelligence and law enforcement communities to strengthen national security efforts.