· BeyondTrust’s annual Privileged Access Threat Report highlights that greater privileged access visibility and improved integrations are vital to tackling the modern threat landscape
· Insider threats have remained on a level with 2018, but are still high with 70% of respondents in APAC they’ve likely had either a direct or indirect breach due to employee access in the last 12 months
· 90% of respondents with fully integrated PAM tools are confident they can identify specific threats from employees with privileged access
SINGAPORE – June 6, 2019 –BeyondTrust, the worldwide leader in Privileged Access Management, today launched the . In its fourth edition, the global survey explores the visibility, control, and management that IT organisations in APAC, U.S., Europe and the Middle East have over employees, contractors, and third-party vendors with privileged access to their IT networks. According to the report, 64% believe they’ve likely had either a direct or indirect breach due to misused or abused employee access in the last 12 months, and 62% believe they’ve had a breach due to compromised vendor access.
Poor security hygiene by employees continues to be a challenge for most organisations. Writing down passwords, for example, was cited as a problem by 60% of organisations, while colleagues telling each other passwords was also an issue for 58% of organisations in 2019, which is steadily on the rise from 2018’s statistics. The report also highlighted regional differences, with 42% of APAC businesses expressing worries about employees
