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Non-Human Identity Statistics
You Need to Know
97%

of non-human identities are over-permissioned, widening your attack surface.

92:1

For every user, there are 92 non-human identities—and each one is a potential risk.

88.5%

of organizations say non-human IAM lags behind user IAM—creating blind spots attackers love.

91%

of ex-employee tokens stay active. That’s a breach waiting to happen.

Discover Groundbreaking Survey Insights in the Non-Human Identity Security Report 2024

While organizations have long prioritized securing human users, non-human identities – like applications, scripts, and automated services – are often overlooked.

The 2024 Non-Human Identity Security Report from Aembit, based on a survey of over 100 security and IT professionals, uncovers the disparity between human and non-human identity security, and why it’s creating vulnerabilities and breaches in modern infrastructure.

What the Data Is Screaming About Non-Human Identity Risk

The most urgent and overlooked stats every CISO and security leader needs to confront—before attackers do.

What's Putting You at Risk?

Credential theft, excessive privileges, and secret sprawl top the list.

of access today is non-human, and growing fast.
0 %
secrets leaked on GitHub in 2024 alone.
0 M
of vaults are misconfigured, leading to unauthorized access and exposure of sensitive data.
0 %
The Real Risk Isn't Who's Logging In—It's What’s Connecting Behind the Scenes

Most organizations think they’ve got identity under control—until they look at their non-human access. Our 2024 survey reveals what’s really happening: blind spots in pipelines, over-permissioned workloads, and stale tokens creating invisible risks.

If you’re not tracking machine identity like human identity, you’re not tracking risk.

The Real Risk Isn't Who's Logging In—It's What’s Connecting Behind the Scenes

38.9%

of companies still rely on outdated methods like hard-coded secrets or manual credential sharing.
These practices create vulnerabilities that could be addressed with modern security solutions.

~ 50%

of organizations rate non-human identity security as a moderate or high priority for 2025, with a smaller but notable group already making significant investments.

66%

of organizations experienced a security incident caused by a compromised non-human identity. This statistic underscores the real-world impact of NHI risks.

~70%

of respondents say AI agents and workloads have already prompted them to reassess or adjust their non-human identity security strategy.

44%

of tokens are exposed in the wild—sent or stored over platforms like Teams, Jira, Confluence, and code commits. This widespread exposure puts sensitive information at high risk of interception.

50
1
50:1

Non-human identities outnumber human identities by an average of 50:1 in modern enterprises, driven by automation and cloud adoption.

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