The Seven Types of Non-human Identities to Secure

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Non-humans are everywhere these days. Sure, you’ve seen the much-deserved hype about how AI-powered tools like ChatGPT are going to change everything. But there are plenty of more mundane non-human entities that you interact with in your daily life: the smart thermostat program that knows to cool down your house at a certain time every day, the application on your phone that suggests directions to a place you’ve searched for, and many others. Non-human identities pervade every aspect of our lives, both personally and professionally. In fact, machine identities outweigh human identities by a factor of 45 to one, according to CyberArk research. Machine identities like bots in robotic process automation (RPA) workloads and microservices running in the cloud are growing at an exponential pace as more companies transform digitally. They’re automating many formerly mundane tasks and increasing many functions’ operational efficiency. These non-human identities rely on secrets (including passw

The Seven Types of Non-human Identities to Secure May 16, 2023 Kristen Bickerstaff Share this Article Facebook Twitter Email LinkedIn Non-humans are everywhere these days. Sure, you've seen the much-deserved hype about how AI-powered tools like ChatGPT are going to change everything . But there are plenty of more mundane non-human entities that you interact with in your daily life: the smart thermostat program that knows to cool down your house at a certain time every day, the application on your phone that suggests directions to a place you've searched for, and many others. Non-human identiti

The Seven Types of Non-human Identities to Secure

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