Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Security breaches are increasingly expensive and harder to spot, extending beyond common attacks like phishing. Attackers are now targeting the least visible parts of your infrastructure: non-human identities (NHIs). NHIs outnumber human identities by 45:1 in cloud environments—these include service accounts, APIs, applications, and bots that interact with systems and access sensitive data.

With this release, Apono provides customers a unified cloud access solution that delivers automated, Just-in-Time, Just Enough access for every identity—whether person or machine.

You’ve probably spent years securing human identities, employees, contractors, and admins. But there’s a growing blind spot: Non-human identities (NHIs). Every application, microservice, API, and automated process running in your environment has an identity. They run your CI/CD pipelines, access sensitive data, and connect systems behind the scenes. These identities often hold powerful privileges that are difficult to manage without visibility and the right tools.

At Apono, integrations are about creating seamless workflows, enhancing security, and providing exceptional experiences for engineering teams. We’re excited to announce our enhanced integration with PagerDuty because incident management and access control are truly better together.

The weakest link in your infrastructure might just be your permissions. In Kubernetes, permissions exist to protect your cluster, but if you’re not careful, they can become your number one problem. How? A single misconfigured access role in a Kubernetes cluster can open the door to a full-scale security breach. Yes, your network policies and firewalls are in place, but when a bad actor can kubectl delete a namespace from inside your cluster, the real breach point is access control.

As the gold standard for reliably storing files of varying types in the cloud, Amazon’s S3 has become synonymous with storage. While this widespread adoption is a sign of a good developer experience and reliable storage across the board, it also presents a unique opportunity for attackers looking to exploit multiple targets due to S3’s widespread adoption.

Standing privileges are a ticking time bomb in your cloud environment—and the threat might be closer than you think. Every user with continuous access represents a potential vulnerability, and the financial, reputational, and legal reputations can be severe. Stolen credentials were among the top three reasons hackers gain access to organizations’ systems.

The explosion of remote work and digital transformation has unleashed a tidal wave of new systems and software. Even smaller or ‘old-school’ companies are juggling more applications than ever before to keep pace with collaboration and automation in the remote age. Yet, every exciting new system requires login credentials, secrets, and access privileges, creating potential entry points for cybercriminals.

Some traditional security methods are no match for evolving cyber threats, which is why zero trust is an essential addition to every organization’s arsenal. Unlike perimeter defenses, zero trust secures access at every level, verifying every device and user continuously to create a security posture that is far harder to penetrate. Gartner reports that 63% of organizations now use a zero trust strategy, a shift driven by the rising costs and frequency of successful breaches.

Storing sensitive values is a problem as old as software itself. In 2016, Uber experienced a massive data breach that exposed 57 million users’ personal information—all traced back to a hardcoded AWS credential discovered in a GitHub repository. While we have successfully established that hardcoding secrets such as API keys and passwords is bad practice, correctly storing them is a different story, and the issues from 2016 are still prevalent today (8 years later…).