Nearly a third (29%) of organizations in Europe and the Middle East still see usernames and passwords as one of the most effective means to protect access to their IT infrastructure, two years after the inventor of the complex static password admitted they don’t work, according to Thales.
In fact, 67% of respondents indicate that their organizations plan to expand its use of usernames and passwords in the future. This continued reliance on outdated security comes despite IT leaders revealing it is increasingly easier (48%) to sell the need for security to their boards compared to last year (29%).
Surveying 400 IT decision-makers across Europe and the Middle East, the research found that 57% of IT professionals revealed that unprotected infrastructure is one of the biggest targets for cyber-attacks. Therefore any organization utilizing it, as a result of business pressure driving them to passwords still widely despite known weaknesses security
