Story 4: Detecting compromised secrets & naughty 3rd-party vendors

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Join Astrix customers as they lead the non-human identity security frontier in this series “The Astrix stories: Real customer wins”. From building an automated process around NHI offboarding, to a collaboration between security and engineering to remove super-admin tokens in two hours – these real stories will help you understand ... Read More
Story 3: Catching the Red-Team Red-Handed

Story 3: Catching the Red-Team Red-Handed

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Join Astrix customers as they lead the non-human identity security frontier in this series “The Astrix stories: Real customer wins”. From building an automated process around NHI offboarding, to a collaboration between security and engineering to remove super-admin tokens in two hours – these real stories will help you understand ... Read More
The Hidden Risk in Financial Services: Securing Your Non-Human Identities

The Hidden Risk in Financial Services: Securing Your Non-Human Identities

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In today’s digital-first financial landscape, your institution faces a critical security challenge that many organizations overlook, until it’s too late. While your security teams focus on protecting human users, a far larger and more vulnerable attack surface continues to expand unchecked: Non-Human identities, also known as NHIs. Securing the Invisible ... Read More

What is Identity Threat Detection And Response (ITDR)

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Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) is a framework that focuses on protecting your organization from being compromised by threat actors exploiting your organization’s identities. Practically, ITDR solutions include system policies, best practices, and effective tools to monitor, detect, and respond to identity-based threats in real-time across an organization’s environments ... Read More

NHI attacks making waves: Insights on latest 4 incidents

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Non-human identity (NHI) attacks are making waves in the cybersecurity landscape, with four high-profile incidents reported in the past few weeks alone. To help you stay on top of this threat vector, our research team provides insights on the latest incidents in this short article. Let’s get started. Incident 1: ... Read More

Top 4 use cases of non-human identity security: Live event recap

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Last week we held an insightful live event featuring our solutions engineer, Michael Silva, and our CISO in Residence, Tim Youngblood. The event focused on the top four non-human identity (NHI) use cases that are crucial for security teams. Here’s a recap of the key points discussed during the session, ... Read More
Securing non-human identities in AWS environments

Securing non-human identities in AWS environments

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While zero-trust policies and identity-centric programs excel at protecting user identities and login credentials with IAM policies and security tools like MFA or IP restrictions, non-human identities (NHIs) like API keys, OAuth apps, service accounts, and secrets often lack visibility, monitoring, and governance. This gap has not gone unnoticed by ... Read More
Bridging the NHI security gap: Astrix and Torq partner up

Bridging the NHI security gap: Astrix and Torq partner up

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While zero-trust policies and identity-centric programs excel at protecting user identities and login credentials with IAM policies and security tools like MFA or IP restrictions, non-human identities (NHIs) like API keys, OAuth apps, service accounts, and secrets often lack visibility, monitoring, and governance. This gap has not gone unnoticed by ... Read More

What are Machine Credentials, And Why Are They Important to Secure in Your Organization?

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WHAT are Machine Credentials? Machine Credentials are a collective noun for Non-human Identities that operate as digital access keys used by systems. They are used to authenticate and communicate securely with other applications or services in the organization’s environment. By verifying a machine’s unique identity, machine credentials allow safe, agreed-upon ... Read More

What are Service Accounts, and why are they Important to Secure?

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What are Service Accounts? Service Accounts are Non-Human Identity accounts used by machines or apps to communicate with one another within a system, unlike user or human accounts. Service Accounts, using machine credentials, provide privileged identities and permissions for applications, scripts, services, or virtual machines to perform tasks or access ... Read More
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