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Leadership Brief
By Warwick Ashford

How to Get Rid of Passwords - Today

The IT security community has long recognized that passwords are a problem because they are easily cracked or compromised and are ultimately susceptible to human failings. This leadership brief looks how organizations can improve overall security by addressing their reliance on passwords and prepare to move to alternative authentication methods.
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Content of Figures

  1. Figure 1 Comparison of password reduction solutions

1 Executive Summary

Passwords are easily guessed, brute forced or stolen using techniques such as social engineering, and studies show that the majority of data breaches ...

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2 Analysis

There is little doubt that passwords alone provide little or no security as a means of authentication to control access to IT systems and enterprise d ...

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3 Recommendations

Password elimination is recognized as an important goal for the security industry as well as all organizations that rely on IT. But, without the wides ...

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4 Related Research

Leadership Compass: Adaptive Authentication – 79011
Leadership Compass: Cloud-based MFA Solutions - 70967
Advisory Note: Future of Identity Management - 71303
Leadership Brief: Identity Fabrics - Connecting Anyone to Every Service - 80204
Leadership Compass: Identity as a Service (IDaaS) IGA - 80051
Webinar: Getting Rid of the Password – How to Increase Safety Affordably
Webinar: It’s Time to Forget Your Password and Settle for Multi-Factor Authentication
Webast: Andrew Shikiar - Moving Beyond Passwords with Standards-based Strong Authentication
Webcast: Killing the Password
Webcast: The End of the Password – How to Really Protect Digital Identity
Blog Post: Passwordless for the Masses
Blog Post: Account Takeovers on the Rise
Blog Post: Not So Dead Yet: Why Passwords Will Survive All of Us
Blog Post: Authentication: Multi-Factor, Adaptive and Continuous
Blog Post: Nok Nok Labs Extends FIDO-Based Authentication
Blog Post: Windows 10: Finally - Stronger Authentication
Executive View: FIDO2

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