Articles about Machine identity

A report earlier this year highlighted the fact that machine identities now vastly outnumber humans.

This leads to a wider attack surface leaving many organizations vulnerable to cyberattack and loss of data. We spoke to Refael Angel, the co-founder and CTO of unified secrets and machine identity platform Akeyless Security, to find out more about the problem and how enterprises can protect themselves.

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Among organizations that have suffered data breaches, 58 percent were caused by avoidable issues related to digital certificates.

New research conducted by Forrester for AppViewX also shows that as a result of service outages 57 percent say their organizations have incurred costs upwards of $100,000 per outage.

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A growing number of machine identities leaves organizations with the task of managing increasingly complex PKI infrastructure.

We spoke to Chris Hickman, CSO of Keyfactor, about how organizations can go about reducing PKI complexity as well as other trends to keep in mind as they adapt to an era of post-quantum cryptography.

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Thanks to increased cloud and container use there's a growing demand for machine identities, but delivering and managing those identities can present problems.

Machine ID specialist Venafi is launching a new tool called Firefly that enables security teams to easily and securely meet developer-driven machine identity management requirements for cloud native workloads by issuing machine identities, such as TLS and SPIFFE, locally and quickly across any environment.

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Recent years have seen endless stories of human identity being exploited heavily in attacks. The malicious actors behind these attacks have compromised human identities (usernames, passwords and 2 factor authentication) to steal valuable data from countless companies and individuals. The COVID-19 pandemic and the shift to remote work dramatically increased the risks connected with human identities as people accessed corporate networks from many new locations and devices.

But while security departments have increased their investments in protecting human identities, many are still neglecting the risks connected with machine identities. Machines of all types including hardware, software and containers all need unique identities in order to connect and communicate securely, yet most businesses have very limited security controls in place to protect them. 

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