2025 Identity Security Landscape

Human and machine identities are expected to double in 2025.

75% of security professionals agree that their organizations prioritize business efficiencies over robust cybersecurity.

87% say their organization experienced at least two successful identity-centric breaches in the past 12 months.

There are 82 machine identities for every human in organizations worldwide.

70% of respondents say identity silos are a root cause of organizational cybersecurity risk.

88% of respondents say that, in their organization, the definition of a ‘privileged user’ applies solely to human identities.

88% of respondents are under increased pressure from insurers mandating enhanced privilege controls

68% say their organizations lack identity security controls for AI.

Nearly half (42%) of machine identities have sensitive or privileged access.

More than two-thirds of organizations are unprepared for threats targeting AI.

47% cannot secure shadow AI usage in their organization.

61% do not have identity security controls in place to secure cloud infrastructure and workloads.