What will you learn in the 2022 Password Decisions Survey?
The 2022 Password Decisions Survey asked IT decision-makers about password sharing practices, technologies in use, security risks, and the Great Resignation. While there are bright spots, password and security practices remain a challenge that many companies still need to address.
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In November 2021, Bitwarden partnered with Propeller Insights to survey more than 400 independent IT decision-makers across a wide range of industries who play a key role in enterprise purchasing decisions. The findings show an increase in password manager usage, indicating their growing mainstream appeal. At the same time, IT decision-makers continue to struggle with adhering to security best practice and express security-related unease about remote working.
While password best practice is improving among IT decision-makers, there is still a long way to go:
2FA (two-factor authentication) is now mainstream, with 88% of respondents using it at work
Despite the increase in password manager use and 2FA, more than half (53%) of IT decision-makers still share passwords with colleagues via email, a 14% jump from last year due in part to the sudden shift to remote working
Nearly half (41%) share passwords over chat and 31% share passwords in conversation
Ransomware, phishing, and cyber attacks continue, yet many organisations still lack a mitigation strategy:
More than half (54%) of IT decision-makers admit their organisation has experienced a cyber attack
While two-thirds of organisations have a ransomware mitigation strategy in place, 25% do not have one or are not sure
Phishing attacks remain a scourge: emails purporting to be from financial institutions (35%) or a government body (22%) are the most common
Remote working and the Great Resignation are impacting cybersecurity:
Almost two-thirds (61%) of respondents are “more concerned” about cybersecurity this year and attribute this to the fear that employees working remotely may be less rigorous about their overall security hygiene
Almost half (48%) are working more hours than last year, with 58% blaming staff turnover (29%) and difficulty recruiting (29%) as the primary causes
