Service accounts, agents, and workloads now outnumber people roughly 45 to 1 — and almost none of them rotate.
- Machine identities far outnumber human ones across modern environments.
- Most are long-lived and rarely rotated, widening the exposure window.
- Short-lived, verifiable credentials reduce the standing risk these identities carry.
This briefing is part of SecureW2’s Cybersecurity Intelligence series, which tracks identity, certificate, and network-security events for the teams who have to respond to them.
