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Survey reveals five key
areas to secure DevOps,
Cloud and IoT adoption
New research from BeyondTrust reveals how enterprises
are engaging with next-generation technology.
Morey Haber, Chief Technology Officer at
BeyondTrust
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eyondTrust, a leading cybersecurity
company dedicated to preventing
privilege misuse and stopping
unauthorised access, has announced the
results of the 2018 Implications of Using
Privileged Access Management to Enable
Next-Generation Technology Survey.
The survey shows that 90% of enterprises
are engaged with at least one next-
generation technology (NGT), such as
cloud, IoT or AI. Yet, while enterprises are
optimistic about the business benefits these
technologies can bring, they also have
concerns about the risks, with 78% citing
the security risks of NGTs as somewhat to
extremely large. One in five respondents
experienced five or more breaches related
to NGTs. Excessive user privileges were
implicated in 52% of breaches.
To better understand how security issues,
such as privileged access management
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Too much privilege results in breaches
The study shows that, more than half the
time, these breaches occur due to trusted
users doing inappropriate things for
innocent reasons, with 13% of respondents
indicating it happens ‘often’ or ‘all the
time.’ In 18% of the cases, it’s trusted
insiders going rogue and in 15% of the
cases, it’s outsiders gaining privileged
access to steal credentials. In each case,
excessive privileges are to blame.
(PAM), affect the adoption of NGTs,
BeyondTrust – the leader in PAM – surveyed
612 IT professionals. There are real business costs that result from
breaches. The top costs are lost productivity,
loss of reputation, monetary damages and
compliance penalties.
DevOps has reached mainstream: AI
and IoT not far behind Privileged access management can
facilitate the move to NGTs
The survey found broad interest in NGTs,
with the most common being digital
transformation (DX), DevOps and IoT. These
NGTs are important for organisations, with
63% saying DX will have a somewhat to
extremely large impact on their organisation,
followed by DevOps (50%), AI (42%) and
IoT (40%). Respondents overwhelmingly indicate
that PAM-related capabilities can improve
security and facilitate a move to NGTs. Top
practices include controlling and governing
privileged and other shared accounts (60%,
59%, respectively), enforcing appropriate
credential usage (59%) and creating and
enforcing rigorous password policies (55%).
In fact, all of the respondents said they
are employing at least one PAM-related
best practice to avoid NGT problems with
privileged access. n
Significant movement towards
the cloud
The survey also found that cloud
transformation is accelerating. Respondents
indicated that 62% of workloads are
on-premises, with 15% in a public cloud,
11% in private clouds and 8% in SaaS
applications. Over the next three years, that
is projected to dramatically change; on-
premises drops to 44%, public cloud jumps
to 26%, private cloud increases to 15% and
SaaS rises to 12%.
One in five respondents experienced
five or more breaches related
to NGTs
Security issues, as a result of NGTs, happen
at an alarming rate. A total of 18% of
respondents said they had a breach
related to NGTs in the last 24 months that
resulted in data loss, 20% experienced
a breach that resulted in an outage and
25% saw breaches over that time period
that triggered a compliance event. One in
five survey respondents experienced five or
more breaches.
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THE SURVEY
SHOWS THAT
90% OF
ENTERPRISES ARE
ENGAGED WITH AT
LEAST ONE NEXT-
GENERATION
TECHNOLOGY
(NGT), SUCH AS
CLOUD, IOT OR AI.
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