The NHI Crisis: Why Service Accounts Are the New Enterprise Backdoor
The NHI Crisis: Why Service Accounts Are the New Enterprise Backdoor TL;TR Non-human identities (NHIs) like API keys and service accounts now outnumber human employees by forty-five to one. Traditional security features like Multi-Factor Authentication are useless against machine credentials because they lack human interaction. Attackers use quiet, external reconnaissance to harvest these dormant keys