A global report from CyberArk which shows that 79% of senior security professionals say that cybersecurity has taken a back seat in the last year in favor of accelerating other digital business initiatives. The CyberArk 2022 Identity Security Threat Landscape Report identifies how the rise of human and machine identities – often running into the hundreds of thousands per organization – has driven a buildup of identity-related cybersecurity “debt”, exposing organizations to greater cybersecurity risk.
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