It’s not the 'likelihood' of breach that our risk formulas should be worrying about – that’s a given – we will be hacked - it’s the impact that a mistake can impose that matters and that impact should be the key factor when calculating risk. While 89% of respondents acknowledged that using the same password is very risky, only 12% use different passwords for different accounts, and compared to last year, 41% of folks are now increasingly using variations of the same password, compared to 36% in 2021.īut passwords are not the problem, regardless of how much press they get. And only 25% started using a password manager. Millennials (1981 –1996) do this 66% of the time.Ħ5% of those surveyed claim to have some type of cybersecurity education, and 79% found their education to be effective, whether formal or informal. As the generation who has lived most of their lives online, Gen Z (1997 – 2012) believes that using the same password for multiple logins is a large security risk, so their offset is the use of a slight variation 69% of the time. Gen Z in particular is ultra-confident when it comes to their password management, yet at the same time, they are the biggest offenders of poor password hygiene. Instead, it creates a dangerously false sense of security.
In fact, that boastful layer of confidence does not influence their current password management behavior, nor does it translate to safer online behavior. The findings underscored a big disconnect between their high levels of security confidence and their day-to-day actions.
The survey, which plumbed the cybersecurity behaviors of 3,750 professionals across 7 countries, measured respondents’ mindset and behaviors surrounding their online security. That is why traditional online education programs that offer a catalog within a self-serve model, always fail.
Our premise in creating CyberEd.io has always been that just because you give folks information, it doesn’t become knowledge or wisdom by itself. Not one bit.Ħ5% of Boomers, Millennials and Gen Z in the study had all been subject to cybersecurity education programs, yet the reality is that 62% almost always use the same password or a slight variation. LastPass just released findings from its annual Psychology of Password report, which revealed, even with cybersecurity education on the rise, password hygiene has not improved.
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