This is part 3 in our series on non-human identity (NHI) governance. In this post, we focus on one of the most persistent risks in production infrastructure: static credentials and standing privilege. Static credentials are still at large in most environments and many enable dangerously over-permissioned and under-governed access to sensitive systems and data. API…
Tag Archives: Zero trust
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Beyond Humans: Governing Machine Identity Access at Scale
In organizations today, every identity—human or machine—is a potential pivot point in an attack. Most progress in identity security has focused on authenticating people: SSO, MFA, admin lockdowns, automated provisioning. Important steps, but they only address half the identities accessing your systems. The other half—machines like CI/CD pipelines, service accounts, automation tools, AI agents, and…
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Outnumbered and Underprotected: The Hidden Risk of Non-Human Identities
Most security teams have focused their identity governance efforts on managing human access. You’ve got SSO in place. MFA is enforced. There’s a reasonably consistent process for onboarding and offboarding employees. You probably run access reviews on a quarterly basis and, if you’re further along, maybe you’ve deployed a PAM solution to protect privileged user…
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4 Mindset Shifts for Making Zero Trust Work in the Real World
This blog was originally published by Cerby here. Zero Trust has become one of the cybersecurity world’s most misunderstood buzzwords. In theory, it’s simple: never trust, always verify. In practice, it’s often reduced to a check-the-box product deployment or a single vendor’s promise to “solve” it for you. But Zero Trust is not something you…
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Building Zero Trust Security Posture for Secure Privileged Access Management Journey
This blog was originally posted by Arcon on their blog page. You can read the original here. Overview Today, we are experiencing a growing assortment of applications, systems, APIs, and data that is scattered across IT networks in distributed IT infrastructure and multi-cloud environments. This assortment of critical information is constantly at risk from unauthorized…
