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CISOs Should Address Identity Management 'As Fast As They Can' Says Crowdstrike Exec

CSO Online, Monday, March 3rd, 2025

Threat actors increasingly using stolen credentials to compromise cloud assets, warns the company's annual threat report.

CISOs should be moving 'as fast as they can' to close holes in their identity and access management infrastructure to block cyber attacks, says a CrowdStrike executive.

Adam Meyers, senior vice president of counter adversary operations, made the comment Monday on the release of CrowdStrike's annual Global Threat Report, an analysis of 2024 data from customers.

The report noted that 79% of initial detections of attacks didn't include malware; abusing valid accounts has become the primary initial access vector to organizations' cloud assets, accounting for 35% of cloud incidents in the first half of 2024.

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