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Non-Human Identity Security: A Practical Guide to Mitigating Risk

What's this blog post about?

In today's multi-cloud and distributed environments, managing non-human identities (NHIs) is crucial for maintaining security and compliance. These NHIs, like service accounts and machine identities, silently operate across various platforms and systems, enabling tasks such as automating backups and facilitating communication between microservices. However, if left unmanaged, they pose significant security risks. Veza helps organizations effectively manage NHIs through several key use cases, mitigating compliance risk and enhancing security. Effective security and governance require discovering all NHIs across cloud and on-premises environments, assigning human owners to NHIs, ensuring least privilege for NHIs, managing keys and credentials, conducting access reviews, monitoring activity, and right-sizing new accounts. The Veza Access Platform addresses every aspect of NHI management, providing visibility, accountability, and control, empowering businesses to grow confidently without sacrificing security.

Company
Veza

Date published
Oct. 29, 2024

Author(s)
Jared Blistein

Word count
1776

Hacker News points
None found.

Language
English


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