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Non-human identities pose security risks for enterprises

Thursday August 1, 2024. 03:15 PM , from BetaNews
Non-human identities (NHIs) refer to things like API keys, service accounts, system accounts, OAuth tokens. You may not give them too much thought, but a new report from Silverfort looks at the impact they have on an organization's cybersecurity. Active Directory service accounts -- used for machine-to-machine communication within Microsoft’s Active Directory's (AD) environments -- are the most common and regularly compromised NHIs. Compromised accounts of this type maybe even more of a risk than human-owned ones since typically they have privileged access to sensitive machines, effectively making them admin accounts. On average, around a third of users within AD… [Continue Reading]
https://betanews.com/2024/08/01/non-human-identities-pose-security-risks-for-enterprises/

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