A majority IT professionals in India expect their organisations to start using two-factor authentication to protect enterprise applications in the future, with almost half expecting this to happen within the next year, according to a private survey.
“[as much as] 78% believe the use of two-factor authentication to protect applications in the future will increase within the next year,” said the survey conducted by digital security firm Gemalto. It added that biometric and one-time password-based authentication would be the preferred mode.
Almost all respondents said that two-factor authentication would be able to contribute towards their organisation’s ability to comply with data protection regulations and pass security audits. The use of two-factor authentication method is a part of organisations’ efforts to ‘consumerise’ the login process to ensure ease of use while strengthening the security. Majority organisations believe that the authentication methods they implement in their businesses are not as good compared with those found on popular sites, including Amazon and Facebook.
Web, mobile apps
The survey was conducted amongst 1050 IT decision-makers in the three-month period from September-November 2017 globally.
According to the survey, in India, more than 50% of the respondents believed that web portals and cloud/mobile applications were the biggest targets for cyberattacks. Globally, about 47% see web portals and 39% see mobile applications as the biggest targets for cyberattacks.
The respondents indicated that the reason behind this may be the increasing volume of cloud applications in use and the lack of strong cybersecurity solutions.