The cost of ungoverned identity.
$4.45M average cost of a credential-related breach.
$0 of which is recoverable from cyber insurance if the credential had no owner.
Non-human identity governance has been treated as a security cost line. It is a financial risk line. The numbers below are what your CFO already knows but your IAM platform was never built to address.
Four figures every CFO should know.
Average global cost of a data breach in 2024 (IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report). Credential-related breaches run higher: average $4.81M.
Recoverable from cyber insurance if the credential had no registered owner. Carriers explicitly exclude orphaned-credential incidents.
Average time to identify a credential-based breach. The credential is doing damage for 6+ months before anyone notices.
Of global annual revenue under DORA, NIS2, and adjacent frameworks, when a breach reveals missing identity controls.
The cost of governance is a fraction of the cost of one breach.
- Average breach cost: $4.45M
- Insurance excluded if credential is orphaned
- Regulatory exposure under DORA / NIS2 / SEC
- Six-month average detection time
- Manual rotation: 8 to 40 engineering hours per quarter, per environment
- Audit failure: weeks of forensic reconstruction per finding
- Pilot tier: $45K/yr · Scale: $180K/yr
- Cyber insurance carriers ask for the evidence Arkion produces
- DORA / NIS2 / SEC controls satisfied at the identity layer
- Real-time event logs make detection a query, not an investigation
- Rotation runs on policy: zero manual hours per quarter
- Audits answered from the ledger, not from spreadsheets