The data breach epidemic isn’t slowing down. And, despite this kind of threat being present for decades, many organizations still don’t have a great handle on how to prevent it, even though authentication methods, including the use of passwords, are one of the root causes of breaches.
In fact, the Verizon 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report found that 82 percent of breaches could be traced back to the human element of cybersecurity – chief among these are stolen credentials and phishing attacks. So, if the problem is threat actors gaining unauthorized access to data, why are organizations not using stronger authentication approaches to prevent cybercrimes? In my mind, there are three main reasons why organizations have been slow to adopt new authentication methods – along with solutions to these challenges: