Most organizations switched to work from home hastily from last year due to the mayhem caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, often leaving the doors open for malicious elements to come in and infect the corporate resources. Research says nearly 3.1 million external attacks are on cloud user accounts. This data set represents companies in all major industries across the globe, including financial services, healthcare, public sector, education, retail, technology, manufacturing, energy, utilities, legal, real estate, transportation, and business services.

As work from home has increased by 5 times as compared to the pre-Covid days, cyberattacks have also surged by a whopping 300%. In most of the cases, cyberattacks were carried out by stealing user identities or exploiting the poor (or lack of) user authentication mechanisms. A report says, the US government reported a 3000% increase in identity theft attempts due to the Covid situation. The option of Biometrics-based authentication could be the ultimate solution, like usage of facial verification or fingerprint verification, that overcomes the limitations of typical OTP or push notifications-based authentication by essentially providing authentication based on “who you are”. It ensures absolute certainty before granting or denying access as hardly any tampering can be done to ‘Who you are’. However, the best practice would be continuous authentication – The way to go.

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Biometric and facial authentication to curb cyber attacks.