New research from Rubrik Zero Labs uncovers a troubling gap between the expanding identity attack surface and organizations’ ability to recover from resulting compromises.
The AI wave is translating into an increase of AI agents in the workplace, which equates to a surge of both non-human identities (NHIs) and agentic identities. This is resulting in an urgent focus for CIOs and CISOs (Chief Information Security Officer) on identity threats and recovery.
The report, Identity Crisis: Understanding & Building Resilience Against Identity-Driven Threats, shows that as AI adoption expands across organizations worldwide, enterprises are taking decisive action to strengthen identity resilience.
“I could have unlimited amounts of technology in place. But if someone socially engineers our support desk to hand over admin passwords, that’s the end of the game,” stated Andrew Albrech, CISO, Dominos. “That’s why identity resilience is key.”
Illustrating this trend:
89% of organizations plan to hire professionals within the next 12 months specifically to manage or improve identity management, infrastructure, and security.
87% of IT and security leaders actively plan to change Identity and Access Management (IAM) providers or have already begun the process.
58% cite security concerns as the primary driver to switch IAM providers.
“Attackers are no longer breaking in, but logging in, and comprehensive Identity Resilience is absolutely critical to cyber recovery in this new landscape,” stressed Kavitha Mariappan, Chief Transformation Officer, Rubrik.
Rubrik’s research found that:
89% of respondents have fully or partially incorporated AI agents into their identity infrastructure, and an additional 10% have plans to do so.
Over half of IT security decision makers (58%) estimate that in the next year, 50% or more of the cyberattacks they deal with will be driven by agentic AI.
