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

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

Of the 1.8 million breached administrator credentials, 40,000 admin portal accounts had the password ‘admin’.

Roughly two-fifths of CISOs are challenged by evidence gathering (41.5%) as a challenge in satisfying regulatory requirements.

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

40.4% of CISOs are challenged by the lack of a centralized system as a challenge in satisfying regulatory requirements.

Many CISOs (51.6%) were impacted by their maturing compliance program as a challenge in satisfying regulatory requirements.

34.6% of CISOs are challenged by regulatory change management in satisfying regulatory requirements.

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.

33.5% of CISOs are challenged by audit readiness in satisfying regulatory requirements.

Research shows over 210 million compromised passwords.

30.3% of CISOs are challenged by control mapping in satisfying regulatory requirements.

42% of CISOs are challenged by data and system silos as a challenge in satisfying regulatory requirements.