Stolen credentials are involved in nearly half (44%) of all data breaches.

Organisations using SaaS apps have an average of 47,750 passwords to manage.

Almost two thirds of organisations (63.7%) do not feel that meeting new regulatory requirements slow their organisational growth.

82% of respondents use a framework or law/regulation to manage privacy in their organisation.

Two-thirds (66.3% of all CISOs) surveyed said that their organisation does not measure the operational cost of managing compliance.

Of the organisations that measure the operational cost of managing compliance, more than three quarters (75.4%) track all costs.

60% of manufacturers and 52.5% of software and IT services companies see the biggest barrier to adopting Compliance as Code is that no one is using the technology.

Over a billion credentials were stolen in malware attacks within a 12-month period.

230 million of the breached passwords met standard complexity requirements, including length, capitalisation, numbers and special characters.

The most commonly compromised password was "123456", being found in over 1.4 million breached credentials.