ThreatNG NHI Email Exposure is a strategic threat intelligence capability that continuously monitors the external environment to proactively identify your organization's most critical digital identities exposed to the public internet. The capability's core focus is on a specific, high-risk subset of these: Non-Human Identities (NHIs), which include service accounts, API keys, and other programmatic credentials. The NHI Email Exposure capability groups all discovered emails identified as: Admin, Support, Billing, Security, Info, Ops, System, test, user, account, recruit, talent, service, svc, git, docker, jenkins, devops, terraform, rdp, vpn, ssh, saas, help, Automation, and Integration. The solution transforms these unknown, high-value identity risks into actionable intelligence, providing your security team with the context they need to neutralize targeted attacks before they can even begin.

A non-human identity (NHI) is a digital identity used by a machine, application, service, or device to execute automated machine-to-machine operations. Examples include service accounts that connect applications to databases and API tokens that authenticate data exchanges.

NHIs pose a significant security risk for several key reasons:

• Primary Attack Vector: NHIs have become a primary attack vector for both external and internal threat actors.

• Privileged Access: They frequently hold privileged access and require broad permissions to perform tasks across networks, making them an attractive target. If attackers gain control of a privileged NHI, they can move laterally through the network and escalate privileges undetected.

• Cannot Use MFA: Unlike human users, NHIs cannot be secured with multi-factor authentication (MFA) or other typical security measures, which makes them more vulnerable to exploitation.

Your existing security tools, such as firewalls, SIEM, and endpoint protection, are essential. They form the foundational layers of your defense. However, they were built to defend a security perimeter that no longer exists in a modern, distributed IT ecosystem. They are often ineffective at finding and mitigating unknown risks that lie outside your direct network.  

ThreatNG NHI Email Exposure is different because it works from the hacker's perspective, not the defender's. It continuously scans for and identifies NHI vulnerabilities and other assets that are visible to attackers on the internet but are invisible to your internal tools. This fills a critical visibility gap that traditional vulnerability management and penetration testing cannot address. 

ThreatNG NHI Email Exposure is designed to make your security team more efficient and effective. By continuously monitoring the external environment for NHI exposures, it automates the time-consuming process of asset discovery and vulnerability identification. It unifies disparate data sources and provides the crucial context needed to prioritize alerts and understand the severity of each exposure. Instead of being buried under an overwhelming volume of alerts and data, your team receives a focused, contextualized report on your most significant NHI risks. This allows your team to shift from reactive firefighting to proactive threat hunting and high-value work.

Attacks on organizations like Schneider Electric and BeyondTrust demonstrate the real-world value of this capability. In these incidents, attackers gained access to internal systems by exploiting exposed non-human identities, such as API keys and exposed credentials. The attackers then used these compromised accounts to exfiltrate sensitive data and launch further attacks. The attackers who breached Schneider Electric's internal Jira server exploited exposed credentials for non-human identities to exfiltrate 40GB of sensitive data.

ThreatNG NHI Email Exposure provides an early warning system for these types of attacks by giving you a direct line of sight into the exposed NHIs that an attacker is already targeting. It allows you to see the vulnerabilities they see, so you can fix the exposure before the targeted attack even launches.

The capability continuously discovers high-value, role-based emails and non-human identities from a diverse range of external sources, including:

• Subdomains and PGP Servers

• Archived Web Pages

• Compromised Credentials

• WHOIS records

• Website Control Files

This capability helps you reframe security from a cost center to a critical part of business continuity and risk reduction. NHIs have become a primary attack vector. This presents a compelling, data-driven argument that their security investment is focused on a major, yet unaddressed, risk. By identifying and mitigating high-value NHI exposures, you can demonstrate how the solution directly prevents potentially devastating financial and reputational damage to the organization, ensuring your budget is seen as a strategic investment rather than a simple expense.

ThreatNG Identity Exposure is designed for seamless integration. It can feed its intelligence into your existing Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Extended Detection and Response (XDR), and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) technologies. This improves threat mitigation, accelerates your response time, and unifies email and identity data into your broader security posture, making your entire ecosystem more effective.