The 2024 Identity Security Threat Landscape for healthcare reveals growing cyber debt as GenAI, machine identities, and vendor risks expand attack surfaces. Nine in ten organizations reported breaches, with 98% citing digital transformation, vendor use, and poor visibility as top causes. AI-powered phishing, dataset poisoning, and malware are major threats, yet many still define privileged users as human-only, ignoring machine identities that now drive 2.6x growth. Third- and fourth-party vendors increase exposure, but vendor risk management remains the lowest investment priority. To contain risks, healthcare groups focus on passwordless authentication, least privilege, ITDR, and Zero Standing Privileges.

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