
If you haven’t done so, you can request a demo or get started with credential verification for protecting your sensitive data and customer accounts. Does this user’s leaked credential satisfy or violate my organization’s password policy?.


CISOs and IT leaders must go beyond free breach notification services and generic compromised password lists. We also explain how the risk of ATO attacks can be mitigated with modern identity threat intelligence solutions like our patented CredVerify technology. We often discuss the need to assess the risk of compromised credentials and warn that free breach notification services are not viable security solutions and provide a false sense of security. Organizations have a fiduciary and legal responsibility to protect their users’ credentials and sensitive data. Credential verification stops ATOs before they start The obvious solution of changing all the passwords –or enabling MFA– isn’t the most practical or realistic. It is improbable that anyone would invest hours, days, or weeks of their lives resetting their passwords even after an incident such as the LastPass breach. That time doesn’t include setting up MFA, which is impossible for all accounts.

Whether users have 100 or 800 passwords, changing passwords and enabling MFA on most or all accounts is a challenge, even for tech-savvy users.ġ00 password resets * 5 minutes per reset = 500 minutes = 8.33 hoursĨ00 password resets * 5 minutes per reset = 4000 minutes = 66.66 hours I don’t use LastPass (I use a different password manager) and my vault has over 800 credentials.

The pedestrian advice journalists and experts currently recommend to users and organizations ranges from changing passwords to enabling MFA to ditch LastPass or password managers altogether. Going by averages, a conservative estimate, an additional 2.5 billion leaked credentials will be sold on the dark web sooner than any of us expect. A study commissioned by NordPass last year found that the average user has around 100 passwords for websites and services. LastPass celebrated reaching 25 million users in 2020.
