Non-Human Identities (NHIs) include service accounts, API keys, OAuth connections, and other forms of machine-to-machine communications that carry out automated processes. Organizations increasingly rely on these Non-Human Identities as they move deeper into the cloud, automation, and service-oriented architectures.

This whitepaper explores how NHIs have been involved in several high-profile security breaches over the past decade and, more importantly, how these breaches could have been prevented with stronger NHI security practices.