Your MFA Is Costing You Millions. It Doesn't Have To.
By Kevin Surace | 3 minute read
Most organizations still think of authentication as a cost of doing business.
- Passwords slow people down.
- MFA adds friction.
- Security always comes with tradeoffs.
That assumption is now wrong.
Attackers Are Not Breaking In. They Are Logging In.
Today’s breaches rarely involve sophisticated exploitation.
Attackers log in using phishing, session hijacking, MFA relay attacks, and social engineering.
Legacy MFA was never designed to stop these techniques. It relies on users to make the right decision, under pressure, every time.
Attackers know this. And they exploit it.
This is why organizations with MFA in place are still being breached.
The Cost Most Teams Never Calculate
What gets overlooked is the operational impact of legacy authentication.
- Every password entry.
- Every one-time code.
- Every push approval.
Each step adds friction. Each delay costs seconds. Each interruption compounds across the workforce.
Over a year, authentication friction alone quietly costs large organizations millions in lost productivity, while still failing to stop credential-based attacks.
Faster Authentication Can Be More Secure
Wireless biometric, passwordless authentication removes both problems at once.
- No passwords to steal.
- No codes to intercept.
- No prompts to manipulate.
- No shared secrets.
Authentication succeeds only when identity is verified directly, not inferred.
- Phishing fails.
- Relay attacks fail.
- Stolen credentials become useless.
A Shift in Authentication Economics
BleepingComputer recently published an in-depth article examining how attackers exploit common MFA methods, why authentication friction drains productivity, and what changes when login drops from seconds to moments.
It is a clear look at why legacy MFA is costing organizations more than they realize, and why identity-bound authentication is becoming unavoidable.
👉 Read the full article on BleepingComputer
Ready to move on from Legacy MFA?
You can purchase Token Rings and Token BioSticks today and start using them immediately.
👉 Buy Token devices now
Planning a larger rollout or evaluating options?
If you have questions, need volume pricing, or want to discuss how Token fits into your environment, our team can help.
👉 Talk to an authentication expert
Sign Up
Keep up to date with phishing and ransomware news.
Token will not sell, trade, lease, or rent your personal data to third parties.