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Cybersecurity statistics about access management

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94% of organizations claim they can revoke all physical and logical access within 24 hours of an employee leaving.

FIDO Alliance & HID6/20/2026
Identity Security

35% of organizations experience delays or failures revoking physical or logical access within 24 hours when an employee leaves, with such events occurring in the past two years.

FIDO Alliance & HID6/20/2026
Identity SecurityAccess Revocation

43% of Public Sector organizations experience access revocation failures.

FIDO Alliance & HID6/20/2026
Public SectorIdentity Security

76% of organizations cannot immediately revoke standing access when it is no longer needed.

Netwrix6/15/2026
Data Security

Only 29% of organizations running AI today can identify within minutes which systems an AI accessed.

Veeam6/6/2026
AI AuditOperational Risk

65% of organizations globally say AI identities are fully registered, authenticated and authorized in a formal system.

Semperis5/27/2026
Identity GovernanceAI Identity

93% of organizations already use or plan to use AI agents for sensitive security tasks such as password resets and VPN access.

Semperis5/27/2026
AI AdoptionIdentity Security

29% of organizations already use AI agents to manage security-related help desk tickets including password resets and VPN access.

Semperis5/27/2026
Help Desk AutomationAI Adoption

65% of organizations intend to use AI agents to manage security-related help desk tickets within the next year.

Semperis5/27/2026
Help Desk AutomationAI Adoption

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

Sophos5/27/2026
Non-Human IdentitiesIdentity Attack

On average, 40% of AI agents and 40% of machine identities already have access to organizational data.

Palo Alto Networks5/27/2026
AI AgentsMachine Identities

96% of respondents report that human identities operate with access far beyond what is required for their roles.

Palo Alto Networks5/27/2026
Human Identities

42% of the human workforce has direct access to organizational data.

Palo Alto Networks5/27/2026
Human Identities

84% of respondents believe their organization could at least moderately improve awareness of the permissions and access granted to connectors and service accounts.

Palo Alto Networks5/27/2026

Only 22% of business partner users receive login credentials immediately during onboarding

Thales5/27/2026
OnboardingBusiness Partner

Over 80% of SaaS access is managed through static profiles.

Oso & Cyera5/27/2026
SaaSSaaS Access

One in four users (25%) rely on broad, difficult-to-audit static profile bundles for SaaS access.

Oso & Cyera5/27/2026
SaaSPermissions

31% of users have the power to modify or delete sensitive data.

Oso & Cyera5/27/2026
Data SecurityPermissions

Human workers never interact with 91% of the sensitive data available to them.

Oso & Cyera5/27/2026
Sensitive Data

Corporate workers leave 96% of their granted application permissions dormant.

Oso & Cyera5/27/2026
Application Permissions