Veridium Survey Reveals Strong Consumer Sentiment Toward Biometric Authentication
Summary
“The pace of mobile device innovation is moving at lighting speed, and as a result, we’ve seen an uptick in the adoption of biometric technologies in consumer-facing apps,” said James Stickland, CEO, Veridium. “With biometric authentication becoming more mainstream, enterprises are well positioned to introduce the technology to their employees to create a fast, secure and frictionless experience when logging into workplace networks and applications.” This is a missed opportunity by companies, as multi-factor authentication leveraging biometrics can be a very effective layer of security, mitigating the impact of passwords stolen in data breaches or instances of identity theft. While the majority of survey respondents (70 percent) would like to expand use of biometric authentication into the workplace, their preferences for doing so differs widely according to age. Despite being deemed the generation of digital natives, millennial respondents surprisingly prefer traditional passwords (47 percent) over any form of biometric authentication.