Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Non-human identities (NHIs) such as service accounts, API keys, tokens, and workload identities now outnumber human users by 10x or more in most organizations. Unlike human identities that follow HR-driven lifecycles, NHIs are often created ad hoc, granted excessive permissions, and rarely decommissioned. Effective NHI lifecycle management spans five stages: discovery and inventory, secure provisioning, ongoing monitoring, credential risk management (including rotation), and decommissioning.

While it is not technically required, the Cyber Essentials 3.3 set of standards is quickly becoming a necessity for organizations that need to ensure public sector contract, insurance and supplier assurance in the U.K. That’s good news for managed service providers (MSPs), who now have an opportunity to build both trust and revenue by guiding clients toward Cyber Essentials certification. Acronis recently surveyed U.K. partners about Cyber Essentials.

We want to transform how companies make decisions. That is not what you expect to hear from an observability company. Observability tools are supposed to help you monitor systems, debug incidents, and maybe reduce downtime. Useful, but not exactly the foundation for business decision making. So what does observability have to do with revenue, churn, or customer experience? More than you think, because observability already sits on top of the most important data in your business.

Accessing modern infrastructure requires more than a network-level foothold. As services spread across clouds, clusters, and regions, the question of who can reach what stops being a network question and becomes an identity question. Reverse proxies are the component that answers it. A reverse proxy sits between clients and backend services, validating identity and enforcing authorization on every inbound request before any application is touched.