Infosec pros are losing confidence in their identity providers' ability to keep attackers out, with Cisco-owned Duo warning that the industry is facing what it calls "an identity crisis."

Only a third (33 percent) of the 650 cybersecurity leaders in North America and Europe said they were unconcerned about the security their vendor offered against phishing and AI-assisted attacks, according to Duo.

The identity and access management (IAM) biz thinks this can be explained by a number of factors, such as overly complex security solutions, a lack of visibility into potential weaknesses, and perhaps chief among all of them is that identity security is treated as an afterthought.

The news follows fellow security shop eSentire's report in July when the vendor observed a 156 percent increase i

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