Survey Surfaces Scope of Identity and Access Management Challenges
May 29, 2025 – Published on Security Boulevard
A survey of 625 IT and IT security professionals in the U.S. published today finds only half (50%) consider the investments made in identity and access management (IAM) tools to be effective.
Conducted by the Ponemon Institute on behalf of GuidePoint Security, a provider of cybersecurity services, the survey also finds only 44% have high confidence in their ability to prevent identity-based incidents.
In total, 50% of respondents report there has been an identity-based security incident in the past 12 months. The causes of those incidents were compromised or stolen credentials (34%), identity theft (25%) and phishing (23%), according to the survey.
Kevin Converse, vice president for IAM at GuidePoint Security, said that while the majority of cyberattacks today involve some type of compromise of an identity, the survey makes it apparent that most IAM efforts are still relatively immature. In fact, the survey finds that in nearly half of organizations (47%) investments in IAM technologies trail behind other security priorities.
Far too many organizations are also still dependent on manual processes involving spreadsheets and antiquated platforms that make managing and securing identities overly cumbersome, noted Converse. For example, the survey finds that a lack of appropriate technologies (54%), in-house expertise (52%) and resources (45%) are all top IAM challenges.
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