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We've curated 58 cybersecurity statistics about Authentication to help you understand how techniques like multi-factor authentication and biometric verification are evolving to combat identity theft and unauthorized access in 2025.

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44% of organizations cite reducing IT costs from password resets and help desk load as a key driver for moving to passwordless authentication.

FIDO Alliance & HID6/20/2026
IT CostsPasswordless

93% of organizations are at some stage of passkey adoption.

FIDO Alliance & HID6/20/2026
Passkeys

45% of organizations cite reducing phishing and credential-based breach risk as the leading driver for moving to passwordless authentication.

FIDO Alliance & HID6/20/2026
PhishingPasswordless

59% of enterprises manage three or more distinct credential and authentication systems.

FIDO Alliance & HID6/20/2026
Identity ManagementCredential

13% of organizations have deployed passkeys at scale.

FIDO Alliance & HID6/20/2026
Passkeys

Having no MFA at all accounted for approximately 8% of incurred losses in Resilience's manufacturing portfolio.

Resilience5/27/2026
ManufacturingMFA

89% of monitored SMBs have at least one user with confirmed credential compromise at any given time.

Guardz5/27/2026
SMBIdentity

73.9% of consumers expect strong safeguards such as biometric or one-time password authentication for every transaction

Riskified5/27/2026
Ecommerce SecurityConsumer Expectations

MFA misconfiguration accounted for approximately 26% of all incurred losses in Resilience's manufacturing portfolio.

Resilience5/27/2026
ManufacturingMFA Misconfiguration

69% of consumers say multifactor authentication increases their trust in companies

Thales5/27/2026
ConsumerConsumer Trust

76% of people use multi-factor authentication, up from 69%.

Malwarebytes5/27/2026
MFAConsumer

68% of consumers say passkeys increase their trust in companies

Thales5/27/2026
ConsumerPasskeys

The attack rate at login jumped 216%.

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions5/27/2026
Account Takeover

57.87% of organizations have IAM users without MFA.

Orca Security5/27/2026
IAM Access Control

32% of organizations are uncertain how much time is required to implement and maintain authentication or credential handling for a typical AI agent.

Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)5/27/2026
AI AgentsIdentity Management

49% of IT leaders currently offer passkeys

Thales5/27/2026
Passkeys

Four authentication-related weaknesses appeared in every final codebase: insecure JWT verification and management; lack of application-level brute force protections; exposure to token replay attacks; and insecure defaults for refresh token cookie configurations.

DryRun Security5/27/2026
Application SecurityCoding Agents

53% of Americans enable two-factor authentication.

McAfee5/27/2026
ConsumerUS

48.1% of organizations have experienced Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) fatigue attacks

Lumos5/27/2026
MFA Fatigue

70% of phishing emails pass DMARC authentication.

Darktrace5/27/2026
Email SecurityDMARC