Preventing Unauthorized Usage of Non-Person Entities (NPEs)

Originally published by TrueFort. Written by Trish Reilly, TrueFort. What is an “NPE”? For those of you not working at a Federal agency, the acronym ‘NPE’ may be foreign. Or you may know it as service accounts for non-federal organizations. Like any other industry, the US Federal government often has a language of its own. In this instance, NPE stands for non-person entity and is defined as “An entity with a digital identity that acts in cyberspace, but is not …

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