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New Report: Employees’ Poor Password Practices Put Businesses Around the World at Risk

New Report: Employees’ Poor Password Practices Put Businesses Around the World at Risk

Chuck Davis
Cybersecurity News

LastPass has released its third annual Global Password Security Report where they analyzed over 47,000 businesses to share interesting and helpful insights into employee password behavior at businesses around the world. The report is free but you will have to give up some contact information to download it.

The key takeaways are:
Businesses still have a lot of work to do in the area of password and authentication security.
Businesses are increasing their use of multi-factor authentication (MFA) but employees still have poor password hygiene.

Multi-Factor Authentication: The Password Conundrum Part 3

Multi-Factor Authentication: The Password Conundrum Part 3

Chuck Davis
Tips & Best Practices

In part 1 of the Password Conundrum, we talked about how we all hate passwords and how we can never remember a strong, unique password for every website, system, and application that we use.

In part 2, we talked about how a password manager can solve this problem and make your digital life much easier and more secure.

In part 3, I’ll explain multi-factor authentication and how to use it.

You don’t need an MFA (Master of Fine Arts) degree to use MFA (multi-factor authentication). Sorry for the acronym humor. MFA requires a user to provide an additional means of authentication or verification, in addition to entering a username and password. 

Before we delve into MFA, let’s talk quickly about authentication.