Employees Share Average of 6 Passwords With Co-Workers
October 2 2018An employee on average shares six passwords with his or her co-workers, and half of employees reuse passwords among work and personal accounts.
But there is a bit of good news: 45% of businesses are using multifactor authentication (MFA), up from 24.5% last year, according to a study by password manager LastPass of 43,000 organizations that use its service. Some 63% of organizations that employ MFA are in the US.
Even some smaller-sized companies are employing MFA: 41% of those doing so have 25 or fewer employees, the study found. Meantime, 3% of companies with 10,000 or more employees do so.
Read the full report here.
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Employees Share Average of 6 Passwords With Co-Workers
October 2 2018An employee on average shares six passwords with his or her co-workers, and half of employees reuse passwords among work and personal accounts.
But there is a bit of good news: 45% of businesses are using multifactor authentication (MFA), up from 24.5% last year, according to a study by password manager LastPass of 43,000 organizations that use its service. Some 63% of organizations that employ MFA are in the US.
Even some smaller-sized companies are employing MFA: 41% of those doing so have 25 or fewer employees, the study found. Meantime, 3% of companies with 10,000 or more employees do so.
Read the full report here.
Black Hat Europe returns to London Dec. 3-6, 2018, with hands-on technical Trainings, cutting-edge Briefings, Arsenal open-source tool demonstrations, top-tier security solutions, and service providers in the Business Hall. Click for information on the conference and to register.
Dark Reading’s Quick Hits delivers a brief synopsis and summary of the significance of breaking news events. For more information from the original source of the news item, please follow the link provided in this article. View Full Bio
