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Leveraging Credentials As Unique Identifiers: A Pragmatic Approach To NHI Inventories
Identity-based attacks are on the rise. Attacks in which malicious actors assume the identity of an entity to easily gain access to resources and sensitive data have been increasing in number and frequency over the last few years. Some recent reports estimate that 83% of attacks involve compromis...
AI Agents Run on Secret Accounts — Learn How to Secure Them in This Webinar
AI is changing everything — from how we code, to how we sell, to how we secure. But while most conversations focus on what AI can do, this one focuses on what AI can break — if you're not paying attention. Behind every AI agent, chatbot, or automation script lies a growing number of non-human...
Non-Human Identities: How to Address the Expanding Security Risk
Human identities management and control is pretty well done with its set of dedicated tools, frameworks, and best practices. This is a very different world when it comes to Non-human identities also referred to as machine identities. GitGuardian's end-to-end NHI security platform is here to close...
The Hidden Threat in Your Stack: Why Non-Human Identity Management is the Next Cybersecurity Frontier
Modern enterprise networks are highly complex environments that rely on hundreds of apps and infrastructure services. These systems need to interact securely and efficiently without constant human oversight, which is where non-human identities NHIs come in. NHIs — including application secrets, A...
Aembit Extends Workload IAM to Microsoft Ecosystem, Securing Hybrid Access for Non-Human Identities
Silver Spring, Maryland, 3rd June 2025, CyberNewsWire...
AI Agents and the Non‑Human Identity Crisis: How to Deploy AI More Securely at Scale
Artificial intelligence is driving a massive shift in enterprise productivity, from GitHub Copilot's code completions to chatbots that mine internal knowledge bases for instant answers. Each new agent must authenticate to other services, quietly swelling the population of non‑human identities NHI...
Exploit for CVE-2025-40775
Project: Exploiting Protocol Vulnerabilities to Manipulate NHI...
Why NHIs Are Security's Most Dangerous Blind Spot
When we talk about identity in cybersecurity, most people think of usernames, passwords, and the occasional MFA prompt. But lurking beneath the surface is a growing threat that does not involve human credentials at all, as we witness the exponential growth of Non-Human Identities NHIs. At the top...
The Identities Behind AI Agents: A Deep Dive Into AI & NHI
AI agents have rapidly evolved from experimental technology to essential business tools. The OWASP framework explicitly recognizes that Non-Human Identities play a key role in agentic AI security. Their analysis highlights how these autonomous software entities can make decisions, chain complex...
Explosive Growth of Non-Human Identities Creating Massive Security Blind Spots
GitGuardian's State of Secrets Sprawl report for 2025 reveals the alarming scale of secrets exposure in modern software environments. Driving this is the rapid growth of non-human identities NHIs, which have been outnumbering human users for years. We need to get ahead of it and prepare security...
⚡ THN Weekly Recap: Top Cybersecurity Threats, Tools and Tips [27 January]
Welcome to your weekly cybersecurity scoop! Ever thought about how the same AI meant to protect our hospitals could also compromise them? This week, we're breaking down the sophisticated world of AI-driven threats, key updates in regulations, and some urgent vulnerabilities in healthcare tech tha...
Do We Really Need The OWASP NHI Top 10?
The Open Web Application Security Project has recently introduced a new Top 10 project - the Non-Human Identity NHI Top 10. For years, OWASP has provided security professionals and developers with essential guidance and actionable frameworks through its Top 10 projects, including the widely used...
NHIs Are the Future of Cybersecurity: Meet NHIDR
The frequency and sophistication of modern cyberattacks are surging, making it increasingly challenging for organizations to protect sensitive data and critical infrastructure. When attackers compromise a non-human identity NHI, they can swiftly exploit it to move laterally across systems,...
The Problem of Permissions and Non-Human Identities - Why Remediating Credentials Takes Longer Than You Think
According to research from GitGuardian and CyberArk, 79% of IT decision-makers reported having experienced a secrets leak, up from 75% in the previous year's report. At the same time, the number of leaked credentials has never been higher, with over 12.7 million hardcoded credentials in public...
Stop LUCR-3 Attacks: Learn Key Identity Security Tactics in This Expert Webinar
Did you know that advanced threat actors can infiltrate the identity systems of major organizations and extract sensitive data within days? It's a chilling reality, becoming more common and concerning by the day. These attackers exploit vulnerabilities in SaaS and cloud environments, using...
The Secret Weakness Execs Are Overlooking: Non-Human Identities
For years, securing a company's systems was synonymous with securing its "perimeter." There was what was safe "inside" and the unsafe outside world. We built sturdy firewalls and deployed sophisticated detection systems, confident that keeping the barbarians outside the walls kept our data and...
Mario Duarte, Former Snowflake Cybersecurity Leader, Joins Aembit as CISO to Tackle Non-Human Identities
Silver Spring, Maryland, 2nd October 2024, CyberNewsWire...
Aembit Unveils 2024 Survey Report Highlighting Major Gaps in Securing Non-Human Identities
Silver Spring, Maryland, 19th September 2024, CyberNewsWire...