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\n SILVER SPRING, Maryland, September 19th, 2024/CyberNewsWire/--Aembit, the non-human identity and access management (IAM) company, today released its 2024 Non-Human Identity Security Report, a definitive survey highlighting how organizations currently manage and protect non-human identities (NHIs) – such as applications, scripts, and service accounts.
\ The report reveals a stunning, widespread reliance on outdated methods and manual practices that fail to provide adequate protection against the reality of increased NHI-focused breaches.
\ As non-human identities (NHIs) rapidly proliferate in modern IT environments, driven by the shift from monolithic to distributed architectures, widespread cloud adoption, and increasing automation, the report reveals a chasm between non-human and user identity security practices, with most organizations acknowledging their efforts to secure non-human identities are either lagging or struggling to keep pace.
\ The survey of IT and security professionals also shows that careless habits, such as storing long-term credentials directly in code, relying on spreadsheets for manual input, and sharing sensitive information via collaboration tools, are still prevalent.
\ Additionally, many organizations face difficulty in securing NHIs in complex, multi-cloud environments, with concerns about inconsistent access management and unclear ownership of security processes.
Key findings of the survey include:
- IAM Maturity Gap: 88.5% of organizations admitted that their non-human IAM practices lag behind or are on par with their user IAM efforts.
- Low Confidence: Only 19.6% of respondents expressed strong confidence in their non-human IAM practices.
- Insecure Practices: 30.9% of respondents store long-term credentials in code and 23.7% share secrets through copying and pasting, such as via email or messaging apps.
- Outmoded Methods: 38.9% of respondents still use less-secure methods like secrets managers for non-human workload-to-workload authentication.
- Cloud Complexity: 35.6% of organizations struggle to manage non-human identity security across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
- Blind Spots: 23.5% of organizations are not sure of the biggest threat to their non-human identities.
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“Organizations are starting to recognize that non-human identities are more than just background tools. As businesses rapidly automate, NHIs play a critical role in digital ecosystems and often handle sensitive data,” said David Goldschlag, co-founder and CEO of Aembit.
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“But, as our survey shows, NHI security remains very much a work in progress. While awareness is growing, most organizations still have significant shortfalls in how they secure these identities and the vital connections between them. It’s time to elevate non-human IAM to the same level of importance as user IAM.”
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\ The survey, which included responses from 110 professionals, from developers to identity architects to CISOs, also revealed a growing need for more holistic approaches to managing non-human identities.
\ As businesses expand across cloud environments, managing workload identities has become increasingly complex, with many organizations struggling to keep up due to piecemeal or legacy approaches.
\ Those interested can read the full survey by downloading it here.
About Aembit
Aembit is the non-human identity and access management platform that secures access between workloads across clouds, SaaS, and data centers. With Aembit’s identity control plane, DevSecOps can fully automate secretless, policy-based, and Zero Trust workload access with MFA-strength capabilities. For more information, users can visit https://aembit.io/ and follow Aembit on LinkedIn.
Contact
CMO
Apurva Davé
Aembit
info@aembit.io
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