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74% Of Data Breaches Start With Privileged Credential Abuse

Posted on February 26, 2019 by Dissent

Louis Columbus reports:

Enterprises who are prioritizing privileged credential security are creating a formidable competitive advantage over their peers, ensuring operations won’t be interrupted by a breach. However, there’s a widening gap between those businesses protected from a breach and the many who aren’t. In quantifying this gap consider the typical U.S.-based enterprise will lose on average $7.91M from a breach, nearly double the global average of $3.68M according to IBM’s 2018 Data Breach Study.

Further insights into how wide this gap is are revealed in Centrify’sPrivileged Access Management in the Modern Threatscape survey results published today.

Read more on Forbes.

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