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Keeper Security Research Reveals 89% of IT Leaders Struggle to Manage Growing Identity Footprint Amid AI Expansion

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SEMR The article discusses Keeper Security's report on IT leaders' struggles with identity management due to AI expansion. While the report highlights challenges, it also positions Keeper's platform as a solution, creating a neutral sentiment for the company itself as it's presented as a provider of solutions to the problems discussed.

Keeper Security Research Reveals 89% of IT Leaders Struggle to Manage Growing Identity Footprint Amid AI Expansion New global study of 3,200 cybersecurity decision-makers finds AI adoption is accelerating identity sprawl, with 96% reporting disconnected tools are creating exploitable security gaps

CHICAGO, May 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Keeper Security, the leading zero-trust and zero-knowledge identity security and Privileged Access Management (PAM) platform, today releases its latest global insight report, " Identity Security at Machine Speed." The study examines the challenges cybersecurity decision-makers face as identity ecosystems expand to include humans and a growing number of Non-Human Identities (NHIs), and finds that legacy tools and unchecked Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption are widening security gaps that attackers exploit.

Conducted with 3,200 cybersecurity decision-makers and senior IT leaders across the United States, Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East, the research explores how the rapidly expanding identity ecosystem, spanning employees, contractors, third parties and machine accounts, is reshaping enterprise security strategy.

Among the key findings:

As AI adoption accelerates, new governance gaps emerge:

U.S. respondents reflect particular urgency, with 73% citing disconnected or poorly integrated tools as creating exploitable gaps, compared with 63% globally. More than a third also report attempted cyber attacks occurring daily or even more frequently, nearly double the rate of some peer markets.

"AI agents, service accounts and machine identities radically outnumber human users in many environments. Most organizations lack the capabilities in their current identity security stack to govern them. Every unmanaged identity is a prime target for attackers," said Darren Guccione, CEO and Co-founder of Keeper Security. "Given the accelerated proliferation of AI and machine identities within enterprise infrastructure, the implementation of pervasive identity governance with real-time detection and least-privilege enforcement is essential."

Keeper delivers a zero-trust, zero-knowledge identity security and PAM platform designed for modern enterprise environments where AI adoption is accelerating and machine identities are proliferating at scale. KeeperPAM integrates enterprise password management, secrets management, privileged session management and endpoint privilege management with AI-driven threat detection and response. The platform enables organizations ranging from Fortune 100 enterprises to federal agencies to protect sensitive data, streamline compliance and reduce the risk of damaging breaches.

Read the full Keeper insight report, " Identity Security at Machine Speed," or learn more about Keeper's suite of products at KeeperSecurity.com.

About Keeper Security

Keeper Security is one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity software companies that protects thousands of organizations and millions of people in over 150 countries. Keeper is a pioneer of zero-knowledge and zero-trust security built for any IT environment. Its core offering, KeeperPAM®, is an AI-enabled, cloud-native platform that protects all users, devices and infrastructure from cyber attacks. Recognized for its innovation in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management (PAM), Keeper secures passwords and passkeys, infrastructure secrets, remote connections and endpoints with role-based enforcement policies, least privilege and just-in-time access. Learn why Keeper is trusted by leading organizations to defend against modern adversaries at KeeperSecurity.com.

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