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We've curated 58 cybersecurity statistics about access control to help you understand how technologies like role-based access and identity management are evolving to protect sensitive data from unauthorized access in 2025.

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42% of employees expressed that password changes are too frequent in 2025, down from 51% in 2024, indicating a decrease in frustration over the past year.

Portnox10/21/2025
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CISOs reported a 15 percentage point increase in clarity regarding their cyberinsurance coverage for supply chain attacks in 2025.

Portnox10/21/2025
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41% of CISOs reported improved employee productivity as a benefit of passwordless authentication.

Portnox10/21/2025
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50% of CISOs reported that policies still slow employee work in 2025, while 46% find them tedious.

Portnox10/21/2025
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22% of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) have a formal strategy for managing AI identities within zero trust frameworks.

Portnox10/21/2025
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98% of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) identified cloud-based Network Access Control (NAC) as the top factor behind their improved perception of NAC.

Portnox10/21/2025
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42% of employees expressed that password changes are too frequent in 2025, down from 51% in 2023, indicating a decrease in frustration over the past year.

Portnox10/21/2025
passwordless adoptionaccess control

50% of employees reported that security policies interfere with or slow down their work.

Portnox10/21/2025
passwordless adoptionaccess control

41% of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) reported improved productivity as a benefit of passwordless authentication.

Portnox10/21/2025
passwordless adoptionaccess control

Among the CISOs without a formal AI strategy in 2025, 59% are currently building their AI strategy.

Portnox10/21/2025
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77% of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) expect that achieving zero trust will require significant updates or a complete overhaul in 2025, a sharp increase from 49% in 2024.

Portnox10/21/2025
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24% of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) find it difficult to implement zero trust in 2025.

Portnox10/21/2025
passwordless adoptionaccess control

67% of organizations expect to complete the shift from legacy VPNs to zero trust alternatives by next year, while 93% plan to do so by 2027.

Portnox10/21/2025
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93% of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) reported that their perception of Network Access Control (NAC) has improved over the past yea with 98% attributing this positive change to cloud-based NAC solutions.

Portnox10/21/2025
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In 2025, 87% of companies plan to increase their investment in Network Access Control (NAC), with 4% expecting to decrease their investment.

Portnox10/21/2025
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46% of respondents surveyed have expert-level skill in access control and identity management.

CompTIA10/14/2025
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44% of respondents surveyed need significant skill improvement in access control and identity management.

CompTIA10/14/2025
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91% of Amazon SageMaker users have at least one notebook that, if compromised, could grant unauthorized access

Tenable3/19/2025
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