Anetac Unifies Human and Machine Identity Risk with Human Link Pro

In a cybersecurity landscape increasingly dominated by identity-driven breaches, Anetac is pushing the envelope with the global rollout of Human Link Pro—a major expansion of its Identity Vulnerability Management Platform that finally brings human and machine identities under a single security framework.

Already adopted across industries from financial services to healthcare, Human Link Pro directly targets one of the most stubborn blind spots in enterprise security: the sprawling, largely unmanaged webs of human and non-human identities that traditional tools can’t keep up with. As organizations balloon in complexity and the pace of change outstrips security teams’ ability to govern access manually, Anetac’s new offering promises real-time, AI-powered visibility into vulnerabilities that often slip through the cracks.

“Human accounts are one of the most exploited pathways in enterprise breaches, yet traditional security approaches fail to address the complex relationships between identities and resources,” said Baber Amin, chief product officer at Anetac. “Human Link Pro addresses this critical gap by uncovering exploitable access chains, inherited permissions and privilege escalation paths specific to human identities.”

Identity Sprawl Is Security’s New Achilles’ Heel

Modern enterprises are built on a volatile mix of full-time employees, contractors, vendors, service accounts, and automated workloads—all gaining and shedding access to critical systems at breakneck speed. The result? A staggering expansion of dormant accounts, orphaned privileges, and mismanaged third-party credentials—prime real estate for attackers looking to pivot inside networks.

Anetac’s Human Link Pro tackles this reality head-on, pulling human identities into the same powerful discovery and treatment pipelines that its platform already uses to manage machine identities. With AI models tuned to sniff out behavioral anomalies, outdated credentials, and toxic permission chains in real-time, the platform aims to arm security teams with actionable insights across the entire identity lifecycle—from onboarding to departure.

The timing couldn’t be more critical. As workforce reductions and economic pressures upend traditional Joiner-Mover-Leaver (JML) processes, especially for third-party and contractor access, the risk profile for many organizations is spiraling. According to Anetac’s internal data, issues like unrotated passwords (sometimes left unchanged for more than 15 years) and thousands of dormant high-privilege accounts are alarmingly common even inside regulated industries like finance and healthcare.

Real-World Lessons: Identity Risk at Scale

Anetac’s early deployments of Human Link Pro paint a vivid picture of just how pervasive—and perilous—identity risks have become:

• A 30,000-employee retailer unearthed over 1,800 dormant human accounts, many tied to seasonal workers, while struggling with broken JML workflows that left third-party access unmonitored.

• A global financial institution uncovered more than 12,000 high-privilege accounts—many unused or expired—alongside passwords that hadn’t been rotated in over a decade.

• A healthcare network found that nearly three-quarters of its user passwords were more than 45 days old, with dormant locum and temp workers forming a significant security risk.

• Within a critical infrastructure provider, Anetac discovered that more than 5% of all accounts suffered from dangerous patterns like persistent third-party access and unconstrained delegation.

Each of these snapshots reveals not just isolated missteps, but systemic identity governance failures that attackers increasingly exploit to devastating effect.

“In fast-paced, distributed environments, identity hygiene breaks down quickly without continuous visibility,” said Jimmy Merlo, VP of Client Services & Technology Advisory at NXGN.io. “With Human Link Pro, organizations can finally close the loop on human access risks, especially in environments with high churn, complex vendor relationships and fragmented identity sources. It’s a game changer.”

Access Chains: Seeing the Hidden Risk

What truly sets Human Link Pro apart is its innovative Access Chains technology. Instead of merely flagging surface-level risks, it maps indirect, inherited access paths that static governance tools typically miss. In practical terms, that means spotting how an outdated vendor account, for example, could be used to escalate privilege or pivot across an enterprise’s hybrid environment—before an attacker does.

By integrating seamlessly with organizations' existing infrastructure—whether Active Directory, Entra ID, on-premises systems, or cloud environments—Anetac is positioning Human Link Pro as a rapid, low-friction upgrade that fits into already overstretched security operations.

“Organizations struggle with privilege inheritance and escalation risks where unchecked access creates indirect chains for attackers to bypass security controls,” said Amin. “Human Link Pro gives security teams the visibility and tools they need to identify these hidden vulnerabilities and take proactive steps to mitigate them before they can be exploited.”

The Identity Risk Arms Race

The move by Anetac reflects a broader shift in the cybersecurity market: away from perimeter-focused defenses toward granular, dynamic management of identity and access vulnerabilities. As threat actors sharpen their focus on exploiting identity flaws—whether through credential theft, lateral movement, or privilege escalation—tools like Human Link Pro are fast becoming mission-critical.

Anetac’s decision to fuse human and non-human identity vulnerability management into a unified, AI-powered platform could well set the new standard for enterprises looking to outpace both internal complexity and external threats.

Human Link Pro is now available globally as an add-on for existing Anetac customers, delivering immediate value by tapping into their current control environments without disruptive overhauls.