One in Three Employees Compromise Corporate Security through Lax Password Practices

Companies should consider alternate authentication practices since strategies to improve password security have no impact

Passwords are largely ineffective at protecting corporate data due to common human error, a new study by Nucleus Research and KnowledgeStorm finds. More than a third of employees write down or electronically record their passwords, creating significant vulnerabilities. Even worse, lowering the quantity of passwords, changing password complexity, or changing password change frequency had no impact on employee actions.