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Posture Control (ZPC)

Understanding Identity Types

ZPC classifies identities into the following types:

  • Human: Identities created for your organization employees and third-party vendors to access your cloud deployment resources.
  • Non-Human: Identities created to accommodate service-level needs, such as service accounts, virtual machines, or lambda functions.

ZPC uses the following rules for each cloud service provider to determine whether a local or external identity is human or not:

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