Why non-human identities are a security priority

Non-human identities (NHIs) -- such as service accounts, tokens, API keys, and workloads -- are exploding in volume, now outnumbering humans 50 to one, but they remain under-observed, under-protected, and dangerously over-privileged. New data from identity security platform Silverfort shows 40 percent of cloud NHIs do not have an owner. In addition 56 percent of organizations say they unknowingly sync their service accounts to their SaaS directory. 46 percent of service accounts are still using the now-deprecated NTLM protocol to authenticate making them easy targets. The evidence is clear: NHIs are everywhere, they have elevated access, and they're largely invisible to traditional security controls.