The IDC PlanScape report is designed to help organizations identify, justify, and implement initiatives critical to successful digital transformation. The report, IDC PlanScape: Deploying Multifactor Authentication, looks specifically at the latest trends and opportunities in the MFA space. Here are the need-to-know insights from the research. IDC’s findings Passwords, on their own, aren’t enough in today’s evolving threat landscape. The static nature of passwords makes them all too easy for attackers to steal through social engineering attacks or compromised websites, leaving end users unaware. MFA has finally come of age. The rise in the adoption of smartphones has allowed for the ease of push-based authentication, making multi-factor authentication easy to deploy to entire organizations and cost-effective for businesses. True MFA requires two or more methods of authentication. IDC identifies three main forms of modern authentication: knowledge-based authentication (passwords, PINs), possession-based authentication (hardware tokens), and biometric authentication (facial recognition.