Mazes are a challenge – at least without a bird’s eye view. Authentication for technical accounts presents a similar challenge for cloud engineers.
Technical accounts are the backbone of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and any form of process automation for IT or business processes. They enable engineers to deploy and configure complete cloud tenants or applications. This fact implies that hackers can misuse them to destroy complete cloud tenants and enterprise application landscapes. Technical accounts for backups have access to all non-sensitive and sensitive data, a goldmine for hackers if they can take over any of them. In short, technical accounts have the impact of nuclear bombs when misused.
