Are We Underestimating the Complexity of Non-Human Identity Risk?

Let’s be honest for a minute.

Non-Human Identities are doing most of the heavy lifting in our environments today. You might not see them, but they’re everywhere, doing the work no one talks about. They are the service accounts handling background tasks and the bots taking care of the routine tasks. In many ways, they have become an essential element in our work life. 

But here’s the thing, most teams still don’t treat them with the attention they deserve.

we all are so focused on human users, but non-human identities which outnumbers and overprivileged than us, end up being treated as an afterthought.

Questions Worth Asking

1. Do we actually have a clear handle on the full lifecycle of our NHIs? - From creation and usage to rotation and decommissioning, how confident are we that nothing’s slipping through the cracks?
2. What are the hidden gaps when it comes to securing non-human identities?
   
3. Are our compliance and audit practices truly NHI-aware? Or are we just adjusting human IAM rules and hoping they hold up?

4. Should NHIs be managed as an extension of IAM, or as a distinct security domain?
   

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