MFA
We've curated 40 cybersecurity statistics about MFA to help you understand how multifactor authentication is enhancing security practices against unauthorized access and identity theft in 2025. Discover how organizations are implementing this crucial defense mechanism!
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Only 23% of third-party organizations fully remediated missing or improperly secured multifactor authentication (MFA) on their cloud accounts, with 50% of all findings being resolved within a month.
Having no MFA at all accounted for approximately 8% of incurred losses in Resilience's manufacturing portfolio.
57.87% of organizations have IAM users without MFA.
76% of people use multi-factor authentication, up from 69%.
Valid accounts with missing or lax multi-factor authentication (MFA) accounted for 43.9% of all incident response investigations by Rapid7 in 2025, making it the single most common initial access vector.
Of the last million logins Push saw, 2 in 5 were not protected by MFA.
65% of consumers enable multi-factor authentication.
In 2025, attacks bypassing multifactor authentication (MFA) were reported in 48% of phishing attacks.
13% of users in global enterprises lack multi-factor authentication.
Adoption of multi-factor authentication (MFA) in fintech is projected to increase from 23% to 31%.
40% of companies globally currently use multi-factor authentication (MFA) for fraud prevention.
Phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication (MFA) can block over 99% of identity-based attacks.
39% of financial services firms plan to invest or upgrade in multi-factor authentication and identity access management controls in 2026.
50% of gig economy platforms use MFA for fraud prevention.
73% of defense contractors lack multi-factor authentication (MFA).
33% of consumers say multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a feature that would increase trust when engaging with brands online.
53% of UK IT leaders in the tech sector say they've adopted MFA.
41% of respondents use personal email accounts lacking MFA to log in to banking services.
Only 48% of respondents said their company uses Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) across all apps and services.
41% of UK IT leaders cited multi-factor authentication (MFA) as the most common defence against email-related incidents.