When choosing a password, most individuals pick convenience over security. TeleSign’s phone verification can help make the convenient choice more secure.

When registering for an email account, social networking site, bank account, etc. on the internet, individuals are often prompted to create a password with numbers, letters, symbols, etc. so that it will not be an easy guess for hackers. However, the individual must also be able to remember the password due to the fact that you are not supposed to write down/record your account passwords. This leads to a dilemma between convenience and security for the individual. Convenience often wins out between these two competing interests. An individual will often go for a more convenient password that they can easily remember than the secure password that they will easily forget.

Even more disturbing is news that even IT Security Professionals are falling victim to this trend. According to recent surveys, IT Professionals are only slightly better than the average user when it comes to creating secure passwords. The bottom line is that the standard username/password login is not the most secure method for managing important accounts on the internet.

A solution to this dilemma is TeleSign’s telephone verification. By getting phone verified to your mobile or home phone, in addition to entering a username and password, you are taking positive extra steps towards improving the security of your most important information on the internet. Receiving an SMS/Voice call to your phone is much more convenient and secure than creating a password that is too difficult to remember in the future. To see how easy it is to get phone verified by TeleSign, check out our demo here.