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Companies Say Strong Authentication Important But Still Over-Rely on Passwords
2020-06-24 10:45

This explains why companies cling to the old password-based authentication while nevertheless understanding that it is no longer good enough.

Ninety-five percent of respondents have implemented multi-factor authentication.

Companies have zero visibility into how or how well their users' credentials are being protected by the social media companies.

The issue of behavioral biometric authentication is interesting - it isn't mentioned once in the report.

"Similarly, the term 'passwordless' has little mention. It occurs in just two of the statistics, and once in the conclusion. The conclusion states,"Organizations that utilize cloud-based access and passwordless authentication to scale secure cloud adoption will be able to meet the.


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