used compromised credentials as initial access
The 2025 DBIR identified compromised credentials as an initial vector in 22% of reviewed breaches.
Verizon 2025 DBIR credential research · 2025 ↗Updated 2026-10-04 · Cloud security
AWS security
operations and reliability statistics.
A source-first view of change quality, recovery speed and whether the running system meets its objectives. Published findings provide context; the measurement framework shows what to calculate inside your own environment.
01 / Published evidence
What the public data says.
Each figure links directly to the organization that published it. Vendor telemetry and community surveys are labelled rather than blended into one invented industry average.
in public-cloud spend represented by respondents
The survey included 861 respondents from large cloud-spending organizations.
State of FinOps 2025 · 2025 ↗of breaches started with vulnerability exploitation
Verizon says vulnerability exploitation became the leading breach entry point in its 2026 DBIR.
Verizon 2026 DBIR announcement · 2026 ↗02 / Your baseline
Measure the system you actually run.
Use these formulas consistently for at least one complete operating cycle. Keep scope, exclusions and collection dates beside the result.
Change failure rate
Changes causing rollback, hotfix or incident ÷ all changes × 100
Median recovery time
Median time from impact detection to service restoration
Objective attainment
Measurement windows meeting the agreed SLO ÷ all windows × 100
03 / Interpretation
A number without a denominator is decoration.
Segment results by environment, workload owner and business criticality. A falling average can hide one critical service getting worse; a rising count can simply reflect better discovery.
- Record the source system and collection window.
- Separate discovered, in-scope and actively managed populations.
- Keep medians and tail values where averages hide risk.
- Annotate architecture, policy and tooling changes.
- Recalculate after remediation instead of closing on intent.
Related benchmarks
Look at the adjacent signal.
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