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2025 Identity Security Landscape
CyberArk's 2025 Identity Security Landscape (a Security Matters research report) maps how AI adoption and the explosion of machine identities are reshaping identity risk. Nine in ten organizations reported a successful identity-centric breach, over half (51%) fell victim to phishing/vishing multiple times, and machine identities now outnumber human identities by more than 80 to 1 — yet only 12% treat machine identities as privileged. 72% of employees use AI tools at work while 68% of organizations still lack identity security controls for them, fuelling shadow-AI risk. The report frames AI as a "triple threat" (weapon, defender, and system to secure), warns that traditional IAM cannot govern autonomous AI agents, and recommends privileged access management, least privilege, session monitoring, tool consolidation, and governance aligned with tightening regulation (e.g., Australia's Cyber Security Act 2024).
Jan 2025Read →