Shashwat Sehgal

Shashwat Sehgal is a cybersecurity and cloud infrastructure expert specializing in privileged access management (PAM), identity security, non-human identity (NHI) management and Zero Trust access controls for cloud-native and hybrid environments.

As founder and CEO of P0 Security, he focuses on helping enterprises govern, orchestrate and secure privileged access for human and machine identities while reducing operational complexity for security and engineering teams.

Shashwat’s expertise spans cloud security architecture, developer access workflows, identity governance, OpenTelemetry observability, SD-WAN technologies and building scalable security platforms for modern distributed applications and infrastructure.

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The rise of non-human identities and the future of PAM

By Shashwat Sehgal

Learn how security teams can evolve identity programs to manage risk, reduce exposure paths, and prepare for the next wave of AI-driven access.

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Machine, workload, service—it doesn’t matter if it’s unsecured

By Shashwat Sehgal

Whether you call them machine identities, service accounts, or workload principals, the fact remains: NHIs are now everywhere, and they need rigorous governance.

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Secure Your Identities Over Lunch – P0’s Expert Lunch-and-Learn Series

By Shashwat Sehgal

How to gain visibility into all human + NHI, securing JIT access, and automating access review through dev-friendly workflows.

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Production access is a mess. Here’s how to improve your journey.

By Shashwat Sehgal

A practical field guide to help assess your identity posture across cloud platforms. Built by practitioners, not vendors.

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Identity Management Day 2025: Strengthening Security for Human and Non-Human Identities

By Shashwat Sehgal

Join P0 at Identity Management Day 2025 to learn best practices for securing all identities.

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How a Leading Insurance Provider Secured 40,000+ Service Accounts in GCP

By Shashwat Sehgal

Learn how a leading insurance provider scaled GCP governance, securing 40K+ service accounts efficiently

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Applied Intuition Reduces Operational Overhead While Improving Security Posture and Dev Experience

By Shashwat Sehgal

To adhere to SOC2 and other certifications, Applied Intuition enforced...

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Enhancing Cloud Database Security in PostgreSQL

By Shashwat Sehgal

Enhancing the security of PostgreSQL cloud databases through the adopt...

Detect transitive access to sensitive Google Cloud resources

Detect transitive access to sensitive Google Cloud resources

By Shashwat Sehgal

Transitive access via service accounts is a common security vulnerabil...

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Investigate Service Account Key Origins and Usage with Best Practices

By Shashwat Sehgal

This blog post provides detailed instructions on investigating service...

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How Afresh automated access escalations, improving security and developer experience

By Shashwat Sehgal

Afresh faced security and operational challenges with their IAM set up...

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P0’s Security Features for AWS

By Shashwat Sehgal

P0's integration with AWS allow security engineers to implement least ...