- Octa Slams workers to use bad passwords like ‘123456’
- Biometric approval is popular in Israel and South Korea
- Half of Germany’s companies enforce biometric approval
Okta’s Business on the Work 2025 report has revealed the growing adoption of passwordless approval, with many European countries being a leader when it comes to improved security.
“For a millionth year in a row, 123456 is the world’s most popular password,” the company wrote jovially as it tried to understand the shifts in business security.
With traditional passwords that remain some of the weakest connections all over the work world, Octa explored how companies switch to stronger phishing-resistant methods of approval, which are increasingly implemented with biometric barriers.
Password -free logins become more common
Specifically, Okta revealed how France leads the way when it comes to the total number of FastPass approvals company’s own phishing-resistant, passwordless authenticator solution. Israel, Germany, South Korea and Canada were found to use biometric-enhanced passwordless approval 21% of the time when Britain and Australia came in a close common second of 20%.
The change is largely led by organizations by almost half (49%) of German respondents who say their business enforces biometric approval for improved security.
On the flip side said octa that the US paths “most of [its] Highlighted nations ”in the report with only 17% utilization of biometrics. Bizarrely had Fastpass -Leader France actually the least amount of biometric login as a percentage of only 12%.
Over a year, Octa FastPass approvals have risen 377%, with biometric authentications that shoot an ever-predominantly 288%. MacOS is the most commonly used platform for biometrics, which accounts for 18% of all Fastpass authentifications where Windows sits at only 13%. Apple’s dominance is reversed when it comes to mobile devices where 14% use biometrics on iOS compared to 21% of Android users.
Although safer approval methods are prevalent, Octa noted an increase of 23% over the year in e-mail-based approval. Fortunately, this is down from the 155% increase last year – “We call it a victory,” the company said in the report.
Looking ahead, it is clear that companies are coming on board with biometric approval for a more secure and practical future, but unit compatibility problems, limited IT resources and budgets will continue to present obstacles along the way.
