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Keep Identity Real with MFA and Strong Credentials

Would you bet your business on the strength of every employee’s password?  If you haven’t deployed business-grade MFA and credentials management throughout your organization, you are probably on the losing end of that bet.  Here’s why:

  • 74% of 2022 breaches involved the human element, including stolen credentials, according to the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (1) 

  • 51% of people use the same password for work and personal accounts (2) 

  • 24 billion credentials were made available on the dark web in 2022 (3) 

  • By and large, people aren’t using strong passwords. Check out the 20 most commonly used passwords in breaches found on the dark web 

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Despite the challenges, passwords are not going anywhere any time soon. Even early adopters of passwordless authentication find themselves in countless situations where passwords are required, and passwords are one of the factors in multifactor authentication. Reality is…the password needs to be protected to keep authentication strong and keep your employees identities real.

AuthPoint Total Identity Security is a new product bundle with AuthPoint MFA and credentials management products including corporate password management and dark web monitoring. With this product, you can reduce credential management costs, increase user adoption of identity protection, and mitigate risk from potential phishing and social engineering attacks related to credential theft.

AuthPoint Total Identity Security includes all the following products.

  • AuthPoint MFA – Deploy a complete multi-factor authentication solution with single sign-on (SSO) and risk-based authentication that’s easy to manage and use. AuthPoint MFA service is also available for purchase separately.
  • Dark Web Monitor Get notified when compromised credentials from monitored domains are found on the dark web and published to credentials databases.
  • Corporate Password Manager Improve password quality, reduce resets, and mitigate risk from shared or stolen passwords. Our Corporate Password Manager creates strong, complex passwords and provides the enforcement controls and shared vaults that businesses need.

Keep identities real and protect your business on with one comprehensive MFA solution: https://www.watchguard.com/wgrd-products/total-identity-security

  1. https://www.verizon.com/business/resources/reports/dbir/ 

  2. https://www.spiceworks.com/it-security/identity-access-management/news/world-password-day-2022/ 

  3. https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/24-billion-credentials-circulate-dark-web-2022 

  4. https://www.techrepublic.com/article/dark-web-prices/