The explosion of cloud identities has set IT decision makers on a quest for reconciling the speed of cloud with the security, compliance and scalability needs of the enterprise. Surpassing the user experience offered by mainstream consumer applications, cloud access management solutions have emerged to address the multi-faceted challenges of the new identity perimeter.

2020 Key Findings
29%
still rate username and password as an effective means of protecting their IT infrastructure
57%
believe unprotected infrastructure, like new IoT devices, present the biggest targets for cyber-attacks
48%
of IT leaders find it easier to sell the need for security to their boards up from 29% last year
96%
believe strong authentication and access management solutions can facilitate secure cloud adoption
76%
revealed employee authentication needs to be able to support secure access to a broad range of services including virtual private networks and cloud applications
70%
plan to further utilize passwordless authentication methods
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About the 2020 Thales Access Management Index
Europe and Middle East Edition
Thales partnered with independent technology market research specialist Vanson Bourne to gain insights from 400 executives in seven countries with responsibility for, or influence over, IT and data security.