5 Non-Human Identity Breaches That Workload IAM Could Have Prevented
Security Boulevard, Monday, April 7th, 2025
As counterintuitive and unsettling as it may be to hear, the most devastating breaches rarely involve zero-days or nation-state attackers using novel techniques. When examining recent high-profile incidents, a simpler, more troubling pattern tends to emerge.
While skilled adversaries were often involved, their access methods weren't exotic.They exploited the same fundamental weaknesses that have plagued security for years: exposed credentials, overprivileged accounts, and misplaced trust relationships.
Except in the cases we'll highlight below, they weren't targeting user identities as the inroad - they went after non-human access paths woven into modern IT infrastructure.