TrustFour’s Cutting-Edge Coverage of the OWASP 2025 Top 10 NHI Risks

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As machine identities rapidly outpace human ones in cloud-native environments, the security of Non-Human Identities (NHIs)—API keys, service accounts, tokens, CI/CD secrets—has become a frontline concern. The OWASP 2025 Top 10 for NHI Risks highlights the most pressing threats facing organizations today. From improper offboarding and secret leakage to NHI misuse and insecure authentication, attackers are exploiting these silent identities to move laterally, escalate privileges, and breach systems undetected.

TrustFour answers this challenge with a next-generation Attack Surface Management (ASM) platform, purpose-built to observe, alert, isolate, and protect NHIs across all workloads. Rather than rely on reactive scanning or manual governance, TrustFour embeds mTLS-powered workload isolation, real-time telemetry, and a dynamic “ring-fenced” authorization map that stops unauthorized NHI usage before it begins.

This whitepaper provides a side-by-side mapping between the OWASP Top 10 NHI Risks and TrustFour’s automated, preventative coverage, demonstrating how T4 doesn’t just monitor risks—it neutralizes them.

Key capabilities include:

• mTLS-powered environment isolation to prevent NHI misuse across dev, test, and prod

• Credential lifecycle awareness to detect improper offboarding and long-lived secrets

• Anomaly detection and telemetry to catch NHI reuse, shared credentials, and behavioral anomalies

• Overprivilege detection to enforce least privilege across machine accounts

• Protection against third-party supply chain compromise via zero-trust identity isolation

By focusing on Attack Surface Management first, TrustFour shifts the industry toward proactive NHI protection. It’s no longer enough to know where your machine identities are—you must control who can use them and when. With TrustFour, you get immediate risk reduction, Zero Trust alignment, and a clear path to OWASP Top 10 compliance.

In a threat landscape dominated by non-human actors, TrustFour redefines how security teams approach NHI defense—turning invisible risks into actionable controls.