Identity Management
We've curated 60 cybersecurity statistics about Identity Management to help you understand how secure user authentication, access controls, and identity verification practices are evolving in 2025, ensuring that only the right people access sensitive information.
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69% of security leaders agree identity management must fundamentally change to support AI safely.
Security teams rate AI as highly effective for threat detection (61%), identity and access monitoring (56%), and compliance and policy writing (55%).
Just 0.01% of non-human identities control 80% of all cloud permissions in global enterprises.
Inactive users hold 16.5% of total permissions in global enterprises.
38% of all accounts in global enterprises are dormant.
824,000 orphaned accounts, representing 8% of all accounts, have no human owner in HR systems in global enterprises.
27.8% of permissions remain ungoverned in global enterprises.
13% of users in global enterprises lack multi-factor authentication.
Machine identities outnumber human users by a ratio of 17:1 in global enterprises.
The average identity holds 100,000 permissions across global enterprises.
89% of organizations plan to hire professionals within the next 12 months to manage or improve identity management, infrastructure, and security
52% of all confirmed identity-based alerts were due to identity-related privilege escalation.
33% of raw CSPM alerts were identity-related, contributing to the operational burden on security teams.
99% of cloud identities were found to be over-privileged, creating significant security risks.
44% of true-positive security alerts from cloud security tools in Q3 2025 were driven by identity-related weaknesses.
69% of global organizations experienced an identity-related breach in the last three years, marking a 27-percentage-point increase from the previous year.
96% of respondents indicated that Identity management requires significant or moderate improvement.
46% of respondents surveyed have expert-level skill in access control and identity management.
44% of respondents surveyed need significant skill improvement in access control and identity management.
41% of C-level executives cite adopting AI tools as their top focus, while 35% of mid-level managers prioritize strengthening cloud security and identity management.