Analysts predict that the multi-factor authentication (MFA) market will continue to grow, fed by the demand for more secure digital payments and rising threats, phishing attacks and massive breaches of large collections of passwords. This growth is also motivating MFA vendors to add new factor methods (such as some of the newer hardware tokens shown here) and make their products easier to integrate with custom corporate and public SaaS applications. That is the good news.

The bad news is twofold, and you can read my latest update for CSOonline on MFA trends here to find out more about how this market has evolved.