The number of machine identities is booming thanks to the growth of cloud and AI – and it’s posing real security problems by giving hackers way more entry points than ever before. For example, a 2023 hack of authentication app Okta was caused by exploiting a service account while in 2024, Microsoft disclosed a major hack based on an old test account. Token Security’s creation was sparked by exactly this kind of security risk: at a previous job, Itamar Apelblat found that an old service account f...