72 percent of companies plan to ditch passwords by 2025

Security professionals increasingly believe that usernames and passwords provide insufficient security, and 72 percent think they will be phased out within nine years. This is among the findings from mobile identity company TeleSign which also shows that security professionals are increasingly turning to effective, easy to implement technologies such as behavioral biometrics and two-factor authentication to secure user accounts. "The vast majority of security professionals no longer trust the password to do its job," says Ryan Disraeli, co-founder of TeleSign. "Thankfully, most companies aren't resigning themselves or their users to password-only account security. They are implementing two-factor authentication in droves and… [Continue Reading]