Run this exercise: pull every active OAuth grant, service account, API key, and webhook from your three largest SaaS tenants. Count them. Now count the employees with access to those same systems. In most enterprise environments the ratio comes back somewhere between 100 and 200 to 1. Fewer than half of the machine credentials will have a named human owner your security team can verify on the first pass.
Industry reporting puts the average at 144 non-human identities (NHIs) per human, up 56% year over year. CIOs who audit their own tenants expect these numbers.
Alarmingly, our identity programs virtually ignore this non-human majority. We mandate MFA, run quarterly access reviews, chase dormant employee accounts, and report SSO coverage to the audit committee. That work covers the 1%. Most of the 99% runs unattended.
Attackers have noticed.
CIO FIELD NOTES
BEYOND THE QUOTE
TNCR EXECUTIVE RESEARCH
Peer Input Request: Fleet & Equipment Tracking and Maintenance Management
A member of the TNCR community is looking for recommendations on platforms for fleet and equipment tracking and maintenance management. They are currently speaking with Samsara and would appreciate real-world recommendations from the group, along with any third-party advisors that could help think through capability needs and review solution providers.
LEADERSHIP INSIGHT
EXECUTIVE OPPORTUNITY
Flexsteel Industries has selected CIO Partners as their exclusive partner to lead their search for the role of Vice President of Information Technology, Infrastructure and Operations, located in Dubuque, Iowa. Read More…
Copyright ©
Notifications are important to maintain a community that Connects, Collaborates, and Contributes. If you need assistance changing your unsubscribe, please let us know, and we will be happy to assist.
