Why password security is the weakest among other security measures?

We have all been using passwords to access out personal accounts for various websites, but it's common that most of the people use the same password for every online account as it seems hard for people to remember 10-15 passwords for various different websites which they use every single day.

So here comes the other login methods such as Fingerprint, IRIS scanner and RF cards to validate your accounts and many companies these days are even having 2-factor authentications such as sending messages to phones to authenticate which again is not a very secure practice as many spoofing techniques can be implemented to by get access to the messages and google recently released 2-factor authentication that sends a notification as well as a unique number to select for authentication which could be a much better alternative when majority of the people are using android phones, but out of all these fingerprints, IRIS, and RF cards(MFA) are the most secure ways to protect any security attacks only when the data or process of storing and authenticating is done on the user's machine/system as they are unique and one exposed out it will be near to impossible for modifying them as they are the only ways in which the user can be uniquely identified whereas we can change the passwords to whatever we want to at any point of time.

Whereas passwords are the easiest to crack as they can be brute-forced and when you use the same or maybe similar password for many accounts you are potentially giving access to every damn thing about you on the internet.

All the major companies have collaborated and came up with a standard way to approach and solve this problem using Fido alliance(Read more about this at the link)

Here is a list of Leading organizations around the world have deployed FIDO

It's said that on an average an employee of a company calls the service desk team 6 times in a year and it takes around 50$ to employ an average help desk to service those issues which are a huge deal when multinational companies burn millions of dollars just to serve passwords new passwords. So even companies are looking at alternative ways to solve their issues in a much more effective way to implement other security features that don't compromise the systems and are much better than traditional passwords.

It's estimated that an average security breach costs a company around 8 Million dollars to cover up the setup and reframe to its normal state back again.

So it's always advisable to use a long password(for sure more than 8 characters) which is simple to remember rather than using a short password with all the special characters which itself is hard to remember.

Stay secure ♥️ as the internet is not always the safest place to be in.