| | May 2019ENTERPRISE SECURITY8IN MY OPINIONBy Joseph Carson, Chief Security Scientist & Advisory CISO, Thycoticn a world where cybersecurity is a growing challenge for all organizations, the urgent quest to find security that works, reduces cyber risks for the business and easy to use is one that CISO's are constantly assessing. Cyber Incidents are continuously growing with billions of passwords being disclosed on the dark net available to both script kiddies and cybercriminals to easily abuse either for curiosity or for financial fraud. For many, it is only a matter of time before you find out that your identity has been stolen and you can no longer access your online accounts or worse.Countless solutions have been proposed to the point that biometrics will eventually make passwords no longer necessary. The harsh reality is that is a promise that is unlikely to happen. Yes, biometrics will help augment human password interactions to make our lives that little bit easier, however, biometrics have a fundamental flaw is that the biometrics we currently use are not changeable meaning once cloned or disclosed the security is significantly weakened such as a copy of your fingerprint. It is additionally important to note that accounts can be either human based identities or non-human meaning machines or applications and yes let's accept the current state is that machines don't have biometrics at least today so they will continue to use Zero Trust and the Multi-Factor Authentication Conundrum I
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