The CyberArk 2022 Identity Security Threat Landscape Report

Massive Growth of Digital Identities Is Driving Rise in Cybersecurity Debt

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A GROWING IDENTITIES PROBLEM

Every major IT or digital initiative results in increasing interactions between people, applications and processes, creating large numbers of digital identities. If these digital identities go unmanaged and unsecured, they can represent significant cybersecurity risk

Sensitive Data Access

68% percent of non-humans or bots have access to sensitive data

Multiple Identities

30 digital identities for every staff member

Rising Machine Identities

Machine identities outweigh human identities by a factor of 45x

DevOps Secrets Scattered

87% store secrets in multiple places across DevOps environments

Getting Into Cybersecurity Debt

Growing numbers of unsecured digital identities are creating significant levels of cybersecurity debt

THE 2022 ATTACK SURFACE

Digital acceleration, cloud migration and attacker innovation are expanding the attack surface

Credential Access

Credential access was the number one area of risk, cited by 40% of respondents

Ransomware

Over 70% of the organizations surveyed have experienced ransomware attacks in the past year: two each on average

Software Supply Chain

62% have done nothing to secure their software supply chain post the SolarWinds attack and most (64%) admit a compromise of a software supplier would mean an attack on their organization could not be stopped

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