In addition, 28 percent said they could not consistently identify users who performed admin activities.įurthermore, 38 percent of IT security administrators did not change a default admin password. In Singapore, 55 percent confessed they were monitoring only some privileged accounts, or not monitoring at all, compared to 57 percent globally who said likewise.Īnother 34 percent used spreadsheets to track privileged accounts and 21 percent expressed their inability to monitor or record activities performed with admin credentials. Some 87 percent across the Asia-Pacific region acknowledged facing challenges in managing privileged passwords, slightly lower than 88 percent globally.

Privileged accounts traditionally encompassed employees with admin access or control to root accounts. The study was commissioned by data access management vendor, One Identity. In comparison, 19 percent in Asia-Pacific and 18 percent globally still used paper logbooks for privileged password managements, revealed a survey by Dimensional Research, which polled 913 respondents from eight markets including Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, Germany, and the UK. One in five businesses or 22 percent in Singapore still depend on paper-based logbooks to manage privileged account passwords, while 90 percent say they face challenges managing such passwords. Some 22 percent of businesses in Singapore use paper-based logbooks to manage privileged account passwords, while 55 percent monitor only some privileged accounts or not at all.

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