While organizations have spent years fortifying human identity security, a critical vulnerability has been growing in our digital infrastructure. For every human identity in today’s enterprise, there are now approximately 50 machine identities operating in the shadows. These non-human identities (NHIs) – from API keys to service accounts, from certificates to automation bots – have become a major security weakness that many organizations overlook.
The string of high-profile breaches, including incidents at Okta, Cloudflare, and the Internet Archive,...