RANT Roundtable with CyberArk

'Machine Identity Crisis: How Can You Tackle the Growing ID Challenge? '

In today’s digital ecosystem, the number and complexity of identities, both human and machine, are expanding at an unprecedented rate. Organisations are having to grapple with managing not just employees, partners, and customers, but also a vast array of digital entities such as applications, virtual machines, containers, bots, and IoT devices. These machine-generated identities – certificates, API keys, service accounts, and more – are vital for secure communication and automation. Simultaneously, the number of human identities continue to grow, fuelled by remote work, collaboration tools, and new digital services.

With this growth comes significant opportunity for innovation, but also increased risk. Each identity, whether human or machine, represents a potential entry point for cyber threats. The challenge is about governance – ensuring each ID is issued securely, rotated regularly, and revoked when no longer needed – and about maintaining visibility over the whole process.

Unified governance frameworks treat machine identities with the same rigour as human ones. By leveraging automated tools and adopting best practices for lifecycle management, businesses can balance agility with security. As the boundary between human and machine identities blurs, robust identity management strategies are no longer optional.

Join a group of your fellow senior cybersecurity leaders, and our hosts from PWC and CyberArk, to discuss how you can get back on top of your machine-identity-management problems, gain reliable visibility of your identity landscape, and begin to solve your growing identity crisis.