• Non‑human identities outnumber humans, yet still managed like people. • Microservices and containers create thousands of secrets across environments. • Static secrets (passwords, keys, tokens) become persistent attack surfaces. • Manual rotation is error‑prone, rarely scheduled, leading to exposure. • Tracking secret usage becomes impossible as infrastructure scales. • Future solutions require dynamic, automated credential management.
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- If you’ve ever had to… - Troubleshoot a production outage caused by an expired service account token - Audit a codebase only to find API keys hard-coded in configuration files - Tried to track down which CI/CD pipeline has access to which cloud resources …you understand the problem. Non-human identities (NHIs) - service accounts, API keys, OAuth tokens, certificates, and machine credentials - now vastly outnumber human users in most organizations, yet we’re still managing them with approaches designed for people. » The NHI problem: Static secrets at scale The explosion of microservices, contai
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