Gartner® Report: Take 3 Steps Toward Passwordless Authentication

“By 2025 more than 50% of the workforce and more than 20% of customer authentication transactions will be passwordless, up from less than 10% today.” The cybersecurity world is hurtling toward a passwordless future. Passwords are essential to your employees' login experience, but they are also the most vulnerable part of that equation. With the global average total cost of a data breach at $4.24 million (USD), a single weak password can often wreak irreversible havoc on your business. And when it comes to user experience (UX), again, passwords fall short. Forgotten passwords hinder your employees’ productivity (can’t login, can’t get work done), and countless resets translate to time wasted for IT support. There has to be a better way. But moving to passwordless authentication isn’t like switching a light on and off. The need to stop using passwords is evident; the bigger challenge, however, is successfully implementing this change. “Passwordless authentication is an aspiration, not a destination.”  This Gartner® report will provide you with the tools necessary to take those first steps toward passwordless authentication. Learn how to 1) identify drivers and define objectives; 2) minimize time to value; and 3) prepare for universal adoption. Start your journey to passwordless.  Download the full report here.

Gartner, Take 3 Steps Toward Passwordless Authentication, Ant Allen, 19 October 2021

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