Unprotected usernames and passwords offer little defense against account takeover attacks. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) has quite rightly become the de facto standard for strengthening access controls.

There’s a reason almost all cybersecurity guidelines recommend it – Microsoft research suggests that enabling MFA can block over 99% of automated credential-stuffing and phishing attacks.

Yet even the best MFA implementations leave a critical gap: weak, reused or compromised passwords. When an attacker bypasses or circumvents MFA (whether by tricking a user into approving a push notification or exploiting a fallback) those same poor passwords become the attacker’s key to your systems.

That’s why a layered approach to identity security must include both robust password hygiene and M

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