Accounts using Basic Authentication

---
title: Accounts using Basic Authentication
description: Display the findings about the accounts that are using only basic authentication to authenticate the APIs under the Security findings in the Machine Identity Console.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/platform-security/identity/accounts-using-basic-authentication.html
release: australia
product: Identity
classification: identity
topic_type: concept
last_updated: "2026-09-10"
reading_time_minutes: 1
breadcrumb: [Security findings, Exploring Machine Identity Console, Machine Identity Console, Identity]
---

# Accounts using Basic Authentication

Display the findings about the accounts that are using only basic authentication to authenticate the APIs under the Security findings in the Machine Identity Console.

Accounts using basic authentication displays the non human identity accounts that using basic authentication for the APIs to login to ServiceNow.

**Note:** The accounts displayed on the page are the accounts that are using username and password for authentication in the last 30 days.

An account is listed when it authenticates API requests with a username and password. To restrict Basic Authentication on the instance, see [Basic authentication restriction](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/platform-security/authentication/basic-auth-restriction.md).

\[Omitted image "mic-basic-auth.png"\] Alt text: Accounts using basic authentication

You can select the machine identity name to know more about the account and the recommendation to maintain a good security posture for the account.

\[Omitted image "image.mic-recommendation-basic-auth"\] Alt text: Recommendation for the accounts using basic authentication