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(PAM), affect the adoption of NGTs,
BeyondTrust – the leader in PAM – surveyed
612 IT professionals in 13 countries. The
results are a wake-up call for anyone looking
to leverage these NGTs.
DevOps has reached mainstream;
AI and IoT not far behind
The survey found broad interest in NGTs,
with the most common being digital
transformation, DevOps and IoT. IT reports
these NGTs are important for organisations,
with 63% saying digital transformation will
have a somewhat to extremely large impact
on their organisation, followed by DevOps
(50%), AI (42%) and IoT (40%).
Significant movement towards
the cloud
The survey also found that cloud
transformation is accelerating. Respondents
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indicate that, today, 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 increases 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 indicated 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.
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, its trusted insiders going rogue
and in 15% of the cases, its outsiders gaining
privileged access to steal credentials. In each
case, excessive privileges are to blame.
There are real business costs that result from
breaches. The top costs are lost productivity,
loss of reputation, monetary damages and
compliance penalties.
Privileged Access Management can
facilitate the move to NGTs
Respondents overwhelmingly indicate
that PAM-related capabilities can improve
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