Unfortunately, a passwordless future isn’t here yet —
but in the meantime, organizations still need ways to protect their systems and employees from compromise.
Exploiting pandemic-related stress and financial concern, remote work, and government “brand” trust, threat actors are preying on the vulnerabilities of millions of Hawaiians.
Shadow IT and misconfigured application programming interface accounted for the vast majority of security incidents in the cloud last year, according to the 2021 IBM Security X-Force Cloud Threat Landscape Report.
Security teams who aim to control secure access to networked applications and sensitive data often focus on the authentication of user credentials. Yet, the explosive growth of connected devices and machines in today’s enterprises exposes critical security vulnerabilities within machine-to-machine communications, where no human is involved.
In the past, passwords were the key to accessing systems and platforms, and they held much value as a security measure for businesses. But over time, the threat landscape has evolved, and weaknesses have been discovered in standard encryption methods that have diminished the password’s value.