What We Can Learn from Over-Reliance on Mobile-Based Authentication

The transition in the ID and secure document industry from physical to digital authentication is just one example in a wider movement across many sectors to strike a balance between convenience and security in identity verification.

And as this excerpt from the UK's Open Access Government about overreliance on mobile-based authentication demonstrates, many of the issues that public sector organisations are grappling with translate directly to our industry’s experience.

Cyberattacks against the public sector are on the rise, with education and healthcare organisations, government agencies and critical national infrastructure all being targeted on a frequent basis.

A lot of the difficulty with maintaining effective cybersecurity throughout the public sector is ensuring that internal login methods are as secure as possible, since many organisations are overly dependent on the use of outdated methods such as passwords, usernames and mobile-based authentication.