Most data breaches start with a stolen password. Here’s how to fix that
Somewhere in your organisation right now, an employee is reusing a password they created in 2019. Another is sharing login credentials for a team account through a Slack DM. A third is storing client portal access in a browser’s built-in autofill, synced to a personal Google account your IT team does not control. None of these people are careless. They are simply doing what most workers do when their company has no password infrastructure.
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According to Verizon’s 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report, stolen credentials were involved in roughly 80 per cent of web application breaches and remain the single most common initial attack vector across all industries. The pattern is consistent year after year: an employee reuses a password, that password appears in a consumer data...
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