What are Service Accounts, and Why are They Important to Secure?

Originally published by Astrix.What are service accounts?Service Accounts are Non-Human Identity accounts used by machines or apps to communicate with one another within a system, unlike user or human accounts.Service Accounts, using machine credentials, provide privileged identities and permissions for applications, scripts, services, or virtual machines to perform tasks or access resources. This allows different systems to work together efficiently and automatically within an organization’s…