Passwords Are Here To Stay and There’s a Tool You Need To Know About

Why Is the Password Sticking Around?

It’s clear that a lot has changed over the past two decades when it comes to Internet security. For example, WPA Wifi protection, released in the year 2000, is now considered hazardous by today’s standards. Something that hasn’t changed however, is the fact that alphanumeric passwords still remain the dominant force when it comes to internet authentication.

This is peculiar on the one hand, as passwords are easily lost, forgotten, compromised and ‘found’ by the wrong people. On the other hand, they are much more convenient than biometrics and multi-factor authentication; perhaps it’s just a force of habit, or perhaps they are truly the perfect method of authentication, and there’s simply no better way to authenticate someone than probing their brain for a string of neural connections that create a personalised word and/or numerical combination.

Regardless of the reasoning, the fact remains true – Passwords are here to stay. For most people, this isn’t much of a problem, but when it comes to business, where passwords are shared, frequently compromised in data-breaches, taken with employees who leave the company and changed all the time – it can be a real headache. And it gets worse; according to a survey by Slack, 72% of post-pandemic employees now report that they prefer a hybrid remote-office model. This means that a company in today’s world not only has to manage passwords in the office, but out of the office too, on work computers, devices, sometimes even on an international stage.

With this in mind, for the modern business, that headache is being turned into a nightmare.

So, what can businesses do, in a post-pandemic, password-preferring world? The short answer would be to get a password manager. The longer, better answer would be to book a demo…