siliconindia | | APRIL 20218budding bizCYBERARK REPORT: MASSIVE GROWTH OF DIGITAL IDENTITIES IS DRIVING RISE IN CYBERSECURITY DEBTBY SILICONINDIAA new global report released today by CyberArk shows that 79 percent of senior security professionals state 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.A GROWING IDENTITIES PROBLEMEvery 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:Sixty-eight percent of non-humans or bots have access to sensitive data and assets.The average staff member has greater than 30 digital identities.1Machine identities now outweigh human identities by a factor of 45x on average.Eighty-seven percent store secrets in multiple places across DevOps environments, while 80 percent say developers typically have more privileges than necessary for their roles.THE 2022 ATTACK SURFACESecular trends of digital transformation, cloud migration and
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