CREDIT: Cost of Credential Stuffing Survey, Ponemon Institute, September 2017

Credential stuffing attacks are lucrative and difficult to detect using standard security controls.

per yearMILLION$6

Monetary attacks due to fraud

$1.6

prevention, detection, and remediation

MILLION$2.7

customer churn

$1.7

downtime

Average Cost

$54 per yearMILLION

MILLIONMILLION

The High Cost of

CREDENTIAL STUFFING

ATTACKS

Attack Landscape past 12 months

FREQUENCY

1 Application downtime

2 Costs to remediate

3 Lower customer satisfaction

4 Fraud loss

5 Customer churn

6 Damaged brand equity

TOP 6 Consequences

SEVERITY

Organizations with good visibility into these attacks

Organizations with sufficient solutions and technologies to stop attacks

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CREDIT: The Cost of Credential Stuffing, Ponemon Institute, October 2017

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Average attacks per month

12.7

1,252User accounts targeted

per attack

Time spent preventing and dealing with credential stuffing attacks

501Hours

per week

100%of organizations have experienced credential stuffing

feel prepared30%

30%32%