Credentials
We've curated 136 cybersecurity statistics about credentials to help you understand how password management, multi-factor authentication, and the rise of phishing attacks are shaping the security landscape in 2025.
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Only 33% of IT managers reveal that they are currently able to take a proactive approach to credential security.
67% of IT admins cite credential access management as being very important.
36% of IT admins rely on direct conversations for employees to update credentials.
51% of IT leaders say employees don’t take security seriously.
68% of IT managers say employee motivation is the biggest challenge in remediating at-risk credentials.
51% of IT leaders believe that clearly prioritising security actions significantly enhances security posture.
53% of IT managers want to take a proactive approach to credential security.
36% of IT admins cite difficulty tracking employee progress toward more secure practices.
66% of organisations that do not alert employees to update at-risk credentials say they lack the tools or resources to do so effectively.
44% of IT admins say employees struggle with knowing how to change their passwords.
60% of IT managers report their strategies for quickly updating at-risk credentials to be only somewhat effective or completely ineffective.
42% of IT admins rely on email notifications for employees to update credentials.
48% of organisations report ineffective password health monitoring.
Employees take an average of nine days to update weak or compromised credentials.
23% of SMBs use easily hackable passwords with a pet’s name, a series of numbers, or a family member’s name.
Of the successful leaked password login attempts on WordPress sites, 48% are bot-driven. The remaining 52% of successful logins on WordPress sites originate from legitimate, non-bot users.
59% of human traffic is clean from leaked credentials against 41% with leaked passwords.
Only 5% of leaked password login attempts result in access being denied. 90% of these denied requests are bot-driven. The remaining 19% of login attempts fall under other outcomes, such as timeouts or users who changed their passwords
When including bot-driven traffic, 52% of all detected authentication requests contain leaked passwords.
95% of login attempts involving leaked passwords are coming from bots.