IT security professionals frequently use unsafe passwords and authentication methods. A recent analysis from Yubico and the Ponemon Institute also found that there is a mismatch between expectations and reality regarding the use of practical security technologies. Researchers polled 563 ordinary users and 2,507 leaders in global IT and IT security. They discovered that although the majority of IT leaders are well-versed on password management and authentication best practices, these resources and abilities are frequently overlooked because of usability or nuisance concerns. It was discovered that individual users actually had better security measures than IT managers. According to the survey, 76% of the 35 percent of users who claimed to have had an account takeover altered how
