As a business expands and scales, it adapts with applications to streamline its network and operations. Where an employee may have once had one login and password, IT now manages hundreds of credentials for on-premises and Software as a Service (SaaS) apps, running on different platforms and multiple devices.

Likewise, many businesses now offer online products and services that require their customers to log in to a secure account. Thus, IT must now manage millions of credentials for the business's customers globally.

On top of all this, users are one of the major targets of attacks, with 81 percent of data breaches caused by weak or stolen credentials according to a recent Verizon "Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR)." To mitigate these threats, organizations must rely on different ways of authenticating a user identity-beyond passwords.