In 2024, cloud native environments faced mounting risks as machine identities became central to security challenges. 86% of organizations experienced incidents, with 56% tied to service accounts and nearly half struggling with certificates and secrets management. These issues led to higher costs, delayed launches, outages, and compliance violations. Despite risks, service account use is rising, creating complexity and token security gaps. Workload identities and secrets remain difficult to secure, with 83% warning weak workload protection undermines all defenses. Organizations must adopt automation, centralized visibility, and robust governance to treat machine identities as critical as human ones.

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