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Your MFA Is Costing You Millions. It Doesn't Have To.

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Token’s Wireless Biometrics Pay for Themselves Starting Day One

For nearly twenty years enterprises have been told the same thing. Authentication is a cost center. Password resets burn IT time. Authenticator apps interrupt employees. MFA deployments cost real money but still fail against common attacks. Meanwhile attackers have evolved far faster than the technologies meant to stop them. They no longer break in.

They simply log in using phishing, spoofed portals, session relays, and social engineering. This has produced a strange reality where every year organizations spend more and yet credential attacks keep rising.

A new authentication model is changing both sides of this equation. Wireless biometric passwordless authentication, delivered through hardware devices such as Token Ring and Token BioStick, is cutting login time, reducing workplace friction, eliminating identity-driven intrusions, and returning measurable productivity to the business.

For the first time a security technology not only protects the enterprise but produces a meaningful financial return from the first day it is deployed.

The Productivity Drain Hidden in Plain Sight

Very few organizations have ever calculated the real cost of slow authentication. A password here, a code there, a retry after a mistyped digit. Each moment feels trivial until you apply it across the entire workforce.

Today the average login consumes twenty two seconds. Employees authenticate about twenty times a day across internal systems, cloud platforms, VPNs, and security tools. Those twenty two second logins multiplied by twenty events equal 440 seconds per day.

That is more than seven lost minutes per employee per day for access they are already entitled to.

With an average labor cost of fifty dollars per hour, those wasted 440 seconds equal $6.11 in daily lost productivity. Over a year the total exceeds $1600 per employee.

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