How likely is an organization to have misconfigured multi-factor authentication (MFA) settings?
Very likely6%
Likely41%
Somewhat likely22%
Somewhat unlikely15%
Unlikely10%
Very unlikely2%
Unsure
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Very likely6%
Likely41%
Somewhat likely22%
Somewhat unlikely15%
Unlikely10%
Very unlikely2%
Unsure
Completely confident21%
Mostly confident71%
Not quite confident6%
Not at all confident1%
Strongly Agree9%
Agree59%
Neither Agree nor Disagree21%
Disagree10%
Strongly Disagree
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The "basics" of MFA are usually straightforward and not very challenging to get right. The challenging part is what happens next, I often refer to it as "operationalizing" security - driving adoption and awareness, providing training, controlling configuration drift, etc.