A survey of 500 DevOps and security professionals suggested that shifting away from legacy authentication technologies to embrace passwordless approaches to cybersecurity is going to require significant amounts of time and patience.
The survey, conducted by the market research firm Schlesinger Group on behalf of Teleport, found 87% of respondents actively moving toward some type of passwordless approach to managing access. More than three-quarters (78%) of respondents, for example, have an active initiative to move to biometric authentication, with more than half (55%) of respondents already using biometrics in their systems.
However, the overall rate of adoption remains comparatively low, with 80% of respondents reporting their organization still uses passwords as a security method. More than half (57%) of respondents also said their organization implemented new security methods that failed to be adopted by employees. A full 62% of respondents specifically noted privacy concerns as their biggest challenge when adopting biometrics.
Michael Ferranti, chief marketing officer for Teleport, said any successful change to access management is going to have to be more convenient than a password. The issue most organizations encounter today is that the approaches used to verify identity are too complex. The Teleport Access Plane, in contrast, makes it possible to issue certificates programmatically and provides a single source of truth for managing the identities of all users, infrastructure resources and custom applications.
Less than a quarter (24%) of respondents, for example, said they are 100% confident that ex-employees no longer have access to IT infrastructure operated by their former company. Nearly half of the organizations surveyed are less than 50% confident that former employees no longer have access to infrastructure, the ..
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