Threat actors are increasingly compromising organizations by exploiting non-human identities, service accounts, API tokens, OAuth grants, and CI/CD pipeline credentials, through trusted third-party relationships rather than direct system attacks. Because identity governance programs have historically focused on human workforce accounts, NHIs are frequently over-permissioned, long-lived, unrotated, and unmonitored, creating a persistent vulnerability attackers exploit for initial access and lateral movement. Any organization relying on cloud services, third-party integrations, or automated pipelines carries material exposure; a single compromised supplier credential can provide broad access to downstream customer environments.