Security News > 2020 > July > CIOs are apprehensive about interruptions due to expired machine identities

Key findings 75% of global CIOs expressed concern about the security risks connected with the proliferation of TLS machine identities.

56% of CIOs said they worry about outages and business interruptions due to expired certificates.

97% of CIOs estimated that the number of TLS machine identities used by their organization would increase at least 10-20% over the next year.

"According to a Venafi survey from 2018, once IT professionals deployed a comprehensive machine identity protection solution, they typically found 57,000 TLS machine identities that they did not know they had in their businesses and cloud," said Kevin Bocek, vice president of security strategy and threat intelligence at Venafi.

"This study indicates that many CIOs are likely significantly underestimating the number of TLS machine identities currently in use. As a result, they are unaware of the size of the attack surface and the operational risks that these unknown machine identities bring to their organization. Whether it's debilitating outages from expired certificates, or attackers hiding in encrypted traffic for extended periods of time, risks abound."

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