In a new report from RSA, a cybersecurity and identity management leader, over 2,000 professionals across 62 countries shared insights on the evolving landscape of identity security and breaches. The findings reveal that identity-related breaches are costly and severe, with 40% of respondents reporting such incidents and 66% describing them as significantly impactful. The report also highlights the growing role of AI in cybersecurity, with 80% believing AI will empower cybersecurity more than aid cybercriminals in the next five years.
Nearly 79% of organizations plan to implement AI in their cybersecurity stack within the next year, with entertainment, finance, and retail sectors leading the charge.
RSA report: impact of passwordless security
A shift away from passwords is evident, as 51% of respondents reported needing to input passwords six times or more daily for work.
To reduce the risk of breaches, 61% of organizations plan to adopt passwordless authentication within the next year. The report also reveals a divide in willingness to install security monitoring software on personal devices, with 73% of IAM experts and 60% of cybersecurity specialists open to it, compared to only 39% of generalists. Hybrid environments are prevalent, with 70% of organizations operating in such setups, reflecting the complex nature of application and security deployments and necessitating solutions that can operate across varied environments.
RSA CEO Rohit Ghai stated, “If I take anything from this report, it’s that cybersecurity and IAM experts are acting on identity security right now, making investments in AI and secure passwordless authentication both because the technology is ready and because the costs of waiting for an identity-related data breach to strike are too high to ignore.
The AI-powered RSA Unified Identity Platform aims to protect the world’s most secure organizations from high-risk cyber attacks by providing identity intelligence, authentication, access, governance, and lifecycle capabilities.
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