Identity Management
We've curated 21 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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67% of organizations rely on static credentials for AI systems.
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%).
The average identity holds 100,000 permissions across global enterprises.
38% of all accounts in global enterprises are dormant.
Inactive users hold 16.5% of total permissions in global enterprises.
Machine identities outnumber human users by a ratio of 17:1 in global enterprises.
Just 0.01% of non-human identities control 80% of all cloud permissions in global enterprises.
13% of users in global enterprises lack multi-factor authentication.
27.8% of permissions remain ungoverned in global enterprises.
824,000 orphaned accounts, representing 8% of all accounts, have no human owner in HR systems in global enterprises.
89% of organizations plan to hire professionals within the next 12 months to manage or improve identity management, infrastructure, and security
44% of true-positive security alerts from cloud security tools in Q3 2025 were driven by identity-related weaknesses.
52% of all confirmed identity-based alerts were due to identity-related privilege escalation.
99% of cloud identities were found to be over-privileged, creating significant security risks.
33% of raw CSPM alerts were identity-related, contributing to the operational burden on security teams.
69% of global organizations experienced an identity-related breach in the last three years, marking a 27-percentage-point increase from the previous year.
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.
96% of respondents indicated that Identity management requires significant or moderate improvement.