Attackers posing as legitimate insiders still an enormous security risk

Cyber attacks that exploit privileged and administrative accounts – the credentials used to manage and run an organization’s IT infrastructure – represent the greatest enterprise security risks.


Sixty-one percent of respondents cited privileged account takeover as the most difficult stage of a cyber attack to mitigate, up from 44 percent last year. In addition, 48 percent believe that data breaches are caused by poor employee habits, while 29 percent blame attacker sophistication. The findings are part of a new CyberArk survey, developed through interviews with 673 IT security and C-level executives.

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