Research

High Risk Users and Where to Find Them
The latest Cyentia Report in partnership with Elevate Security analyzes eight years’ of Elevate User Risk data ranging from 2014 to 2022. High risk users are the top quartile (75th percentile or above) of users in an organization who have had at least one instance of risky behavior, or event. There aren’t very many of them, but their impact is felt across the organization.

The Size and Shape of Workforce Risk
The latest Cyentia Report, in partnership with Elevate Security, dissects the size and shape of workforce risk. This report analyzes data from 15.1m unique measurements, covering 168k users and 3.8k departments from Jan 2016 to Dec 2021.

Elevating Human Attack Surface Management
In this provocative report, Cyentia Institute launches its first annual study on workforce cybersecurity risk, in partnership with Elevate Security. This unprecedented report aggregates data from 114,000 end users across 2,000 organizational departments between 2018 and 2020. Key findings include: Nearly two-thirds of major data breaches are tied directly back to human risk factors Human […]

Infographic: Characteristics of a Risky Employee: Analysis of 1.5 Million Anonymized Security Actions

Global Employee Risk Insights Report
This groundbreaking research is the industry’s first global research report on employee security decisions that shows that there are clear indicators that predict an employee’s security performance.