Machine identity attacks grow more than 400 percent

The number of reported machine identity-related cyberattacks grew by 433 percent between 2018 and 2019, according to a new report from Venafi. Between 2015 and 2019, the number of reported cyberattacks that used machine identities grew by more than 700 percent. Over the same period the number of vulnerabilities involving machine identities grew by 260 percent, increasing by 125 percent between 2018 and 2019. "We have seen machine use skyrocket in organizations over the last five years, but many businesses still focus their security controls primarily on human identity management," says Kevin Bocek, vice president of security strategy and threat… [Continue Reading]