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So you've set up MFA and solved the Elvish riddle, but some still think passwords alone are secure enough
2020-05-07 00:31

About a third of firms and organisations in Europe and the Middle East still believe the humble password is a good enough security measure, according to a survey carried out by French firm Thales.

Thales, which bought secure mobile phone SIM card biz Gemalto in 2017, reckoned that over half of IT pros it polled said that unsecured infrastructure was the most likely attack surface.

Thales, which, among other things, sells access management software, reckoned that its 400 respondents said the amount of staff training on security and access management, increasing spend on access management, and access management becoming a board priority "Have all seen an increased focus".

Last year French-owned Thales flogged off hardware security module biz nCipher following its Gemalto acquisition, a sale demanded by competition regulators.

Password security is an ongoing bugbear for security folk.


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