The study, commissioned by TeleSign, quantifies consumers’ concerns about online security and their exposure to breaches, describes the actions they are taking—or not taking—to protect themselves, and reveals how poor password management and single-factor authentication create the potential for widespread security incidents due to data breaches and other issues in today’s threat landscape.
As this study shows, one of the key reasons for this fear is consumers’ lack of confidence in the main security mechanism (and single point of failure) standing between their online lives and hackers: the password.
Read the full report here – https://www.telesign.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/TeleSign-Consumer-Account-Security-Report-2015-FINAL.pdf