Keep Criminals Outside Your Network with Powerhouse Systems

 

Our unique multi-factor authentication (MFA) solution not only helps to reduce the likelihood of network disruptions and data breaches arising from lost or stolen credentials, but we deliver this important capability entirely from the Cloud for easy set-up and management. Our 2FA solutions goes beyond traditional 2-Factor Authentication (2FA) by considering innovative ways to positively identify users, and our large ecosystem of 3rd party integrations means that you can use MFA to protect access to the network, VPNs, and Cloud applications. Even non-technical users find our tech and mobile app easy and convenient to use!

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Making the Case for MFA When considering the direct and indirect expenses associated with a data breach, the costs can add up. After a breach, a company often hires specialists to investigate the cause of the breach, and then adds security measures to address any failures, as well as pays regulatory fines, legal fees, and more. Even so, the indirect costs from reduced employee productivity, and lost current and future customers can be more substantial. To put a number on it, a Ponemon Institute study1 puts the average cost of a data breach at $141 per data record with sensitive data…or $1.32M when you consider the average data breach of 9,350 records. How likely is it that you will experience a breach from a weak or shared password? Data shows that 3 out of 100 people2 use the weak password “123456” and 6 out of 100 use the same password for all online accounts. So, you have to ask yourself, how likely is it that one or more of your employees are mishandling their passwords. This may be why more regulatory bodies are requiring 2FA or MFA for at least some portion of compliant companies’ users – such as with the additions to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) v 3.2. The good news is that you can mitigate these risks with Cloud-based multi-factor authentication for a reasonable cost! With no expenses for additional infrastructure, hardware tokens, and software support and maintenance, it takes just $2.50 per user, per month or less to reduce the likelihood of the aforementioned $1.32M in breach expenses.

 

1 2017 Ponemon Institute Cost of Data Breach Study and 2017 Ponemon State of SMB Cybersecurity Report 2 http://fortune.com/2017/12/19/the-25-most-used-hackable-passwords-2017-star-wars-freedom/ 3 https://www.statista.com/statistics/763091/us-use-of-same-online-passwords