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Cybersecurity statistics about non-human identities

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Only 19% of organizations fully govern non-human identities.

Netwrix6/15/2026
Identity Governance

76% of organizations do not fully govern or monitor non-human identities.

Netwrix6/15/2026
Identity Management

Organizations with weak NHI management pay approximately $150,000 more to recover from incidents than average.

Sophos5/27/2026
Cost of Breach

Organizations with weak NHI management are 22% more likely to experience financial theft.

Sophos5/27/2026
Financial Theft

Weak non-human identity (NHI) management was cited in 41% of identity incidents.

Sophos5/27/2026
Credentials ManagementIdentity Attack

One-third of organizations regularly rotate or audit service accounts and non-human identities, while just 11% do so continuously.

Sophos5/27/2026
Access ManagementIdentity Attack

32% of cybersecurity professionals are unsure whether their organization experienced a security incident involving non-human identities or credentials in the past year.

Keeper Security5/27/2026
Detection GapsCybersecurity Incidents

76% of cybersecurity professionals say non-human identities are not consistently governed under privileged access policies.

Keeper Security5/27/2026
Privileged AccessIdentity Governance

Only 28% of organizations report full visibility into non-human identities across cloud, on-premises and SaaS environments.

Keeper Security5/27/2026
Identity ManagementCloud

26% of organizations report using automated detection and response to monitor non-human identity activity.

Keeper Security5/27/2026
Automated Detection and ResponseIdentity Management

More than 40% of cybersecurity professionals report experiencing a security incident involving non-human identities or credentials in the past year.

Keeper Security5/27/2026
Cybersecurity IncidentsCredentials

78.2% of security leaders believe they are able to secure and govern non-human identities

Lumos5/27/2026
Machine IdentityGovernance

33.1% of organizations consider non-human identities to be a material risk

Lumos5/27/2026
Machine IdentityRisk Assessment

Non-human identities outnumber human identities in most organizations, often by factors of 50:1 or more.

Omada2/12/2026
Identity GovernanceAccess Management

Just 0.01% of non-human identities control 80% of all cloud permissions in global enterprises.

Veza12/13/2025
Identity ManagementCloud Permissions

82% is the ratio of non-human identities (NHIs) to human users, indicating NHIs now outnumber human users by 82 to 1

Rubrik Zero Labs11/16/2025
Non-human identitiesHuman users

Only 6% of security leaders rank securing non-human identities as their most difficult challenge.

BeyondID6/25/2025
AI AI agents

46% of organisations are struggling to monitor non-human identities (NHIs).

Cloud Security Alliance4/22/2025
SaaSNon-human identities