77% of organisations in India suffered at least one identity breach in the past year: Sophos research
Sophos released the State of Identity Security 2026, a vendor-agnostic survey of 5,000 IT and cybersecurity leaders across 17 countries. The survey found that 76.8% of organisations surveyed in India suffered at least one identity-related breach in the past year, and on average organisations worldwide reported three separate incidents. Repeat victimisation reached a notable level globally, with 5% reporting six or more breaches. These attacks are driven primarily by human error and weak management of non-human identities (NHIs), a challenge that is accelerating rapidly as agentic AI accelerates attack processes.
In India 79% of ransomware victims responding to this survey confirmed their ransomware incident stemmed from an identity attack, establishing identity compromise as a primary delivery mechanism for ransomware. Sophos X-Ops researchers have observed this consistently over the past year. Worldwide, the financial consequences are steep: the mean recovery cost reached US$1.64 million, with a median of US$750,000, and...
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