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ZDNET’s key takeaways
- Weak or compromised passwords pose a significant security risk to companies.
- Employees continue to reuse passwords or share them via email.
- A passwordless future is possible, but it will take time and effort.
Using a weak or compromised password for a personal account is bad enough. But using one on the job puts not just you but your entire company at risk. That’s why the practice is considered a major security threat, according to a new report from password manager 1Password.
For its 2025 annual report entitled “The Access-Trust Gap,” 1Password looked at the ways that passwords are still problematic despite an ongoing move toward passwordless authentication. The report’s findings are based on the results of an online survey of 5,200 workers in the US, Canada, the UK, Germany,…
