CyberArk's The CISO View 2021: Protecting Privileged Access in a Zero Trust Model survey finds a marked shift in spear-phishing and impersonation attack patterns. In response to these shifts, enterprise security leaders are embracing Zero Trust models with 88% of survey respondents citing the adoption of a Zero Trust approach as ‘very important’ or ‘important’.

The CyberArk The CISO View Survey 2021: Protecting Privileged Access in a Zero Trust Model’s headline findings include:

1. 48% of respondents citing increased attacks on senior leadership, as well as third-party vendors (39%), and DevOps and cloud engineers (33%).

2. The most widely reported group facing increased attacks however, is end-users, such as business users with access to sensitive data, at 56%.

3. 70% of those polled reported an increase in credential-theft attempts for personal data, and 66% for financial systems and data.