Help Net Security2026-10-20 04:30:18

Your frontline workers have a workaround for that MFA prompt

Frontline workers in healthcare and manufacturing are getting around slow, unreliable logins by staying signed in, sharing credentials and trying to bypass multifactor authentication.

Summary

Sapio Research surveyed 700 IT and security decision-makers in August, and 95% said they had seen frontline workers use workarounds like these in the past 12 months. Each of those habits breaks the link between an account and the person using it.

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This is a brief wire summary, the full story (linked below) has the complete details.

KazaSec's take

Stories like this are part of why proactive security testing exists, finding the gap before someone else does is always cheaper than responding after the fact.

Coverage details

Source: Help Net Security
Published: 2026-10-20 04:30:18
Author: anamarija pogorelec
Category: technology

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