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Managing Machine Identities In A Zero-Trust World

VentureBeat, 45026

Enterprises are struggling to manage the proliferating machine identities their organizations create. Existing methods are not scaling to secure them.

The typical enterprise has 45 times more machine identities than human ones - and many organizations don't even know exactly how many they have. More than six in 10 enterprises are unsure of their organization's key and certificate count, up 17% from last year.

That's why it's so difficult for many CISOs to get control of their machine identities. The typical enterprise had 250,000 of them to manage in 2021, projected to double to 500,000 by 2024.

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