Survey: Most Security Incidents Involve Identity Attacks
Security Boulevard, Friday, February 13th, 2026
A survey of 512 cybersecurity professionals finds 76% report that over half (54%) of the security incidents that occurred in the past 12 months involved some issue relating to identity management.
Conducted by Permiso Security, a provider of an identity security platform, the survey also finds 95% are either very confident (52%) or somewhat confident (43%) they can track non-human identities even though only 46% claim to have comprehensive visibility across all the human and non-human identities accessing IT resources.
More than half (54%) also said they can track real time identity permissions and activities across all platforms in a unified view.