Vice President, Non-Human Identity & Agent Identity Security

Overview: About the Role & Team

IDC is seeking a Vice President, Non-Human Identity & Agent Identity Security to serve as a senior market-facing leader defining IDC's point of view on one of the fastest-moving, highest-consequence shifts in enterprise security. Non-human identities — service accounts, API keys, workload identities, and autonomous AI agents — already outnumber human identities by roughly 45 to 1 in the average enterprise, and by as much as 150 to 1 in cloud-native environments. The market for governing them is projected to grow significantly over the next decade. This role will define and lead IDC's research agenda spanning non-human identity governance, agentic identity and access management, machine credential lifecycle, and the vendor landscape racing to address it. The category is at an inflection point: vendor consolidation is already underway, with established security players acquiring specialized non-human identity and agent-security startups as early signals of where the market is heading. Market coverage in this space is limited, and that gap is the opportunity: this role has a genuine window to establish IDC as the definitive voice in NHI before the category fully formalizes. The Research Director/Vice President will engage regularly with senior vendor executives, enterprise buyers, investors, media, and industry stakeholders to assess market requirements, technology adoption patterns, investment priorities, and competitive dynamics, while helping build out IDC's tracker, MarketScape, and advisory offerings in this space. What You’ll Do

• Lead IDC's research agenda for non-human identity (NHI) and agentic identity security, including machine credential lifecycle management, workload identity, service account governance, and AI agent authentication and authorization.
• Shape IDC's market taxonomy, research priorities, and point of view on how NHI is emerging as a distinct security buying category — sepa