The CyberArk 2022 Identity Security Threat Landscape Report
Massive Growth of Digital Identities Is Driving Rise in Cybersecurity Debt
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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