"Legacy Authentication Leads to Growing Consumer Frustration"

According to FIDO Alliance, consumers want stronger, more user-friendly alternatives to passwords despite their continued widespread use. Manually entering a password without any form of additional authentication was the most commonly used authentication method among the use cases followed, including accessing work computers and accounts (37 percent), streaming services (25 percent), social media (26 percent), and smart home devices (17 percent). Consumers enter a password manually about four times every day or around 1,280 times yearly. The only exception to this trend was in financial services, where biometrics (33 percent) narrowly surpassed passwords (31 percent). This article continues to discuss consumers having limited password alternatives, the growing sophistication of scams, and strong industry support for non-phishable authentication. 

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