* Over 16,000 attacks on cloud native infrastructure were reviewed.
Data represents 12 months of anonymized cloud service configuration data from real production environments.
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Global cloud identity and access management issues 2020-2021, by organization size
In 2021, approximately ** percent of respondents who experienced cloud identity and access management issues had the problem of unused credentials. Identity and access management (IAM) user credentials are considered unused when not being used for a certain period of time. Examples of IAM user credentials are passwords and access keys needed to protect resources in the cloud.
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