{"id":58418,"date":"2017-12-06T11:16:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T17:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=58418"},"modified":"2017-12-06T11:16:50","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T17:16:50","slug":"data-security-user-friendliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/data-security-user-friendliness\/","title":{"rendered":"86% of Users Deem Data Security More Important Than User Friendliness"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>User Friendliness or Data Security?<\/h4>\n<p>PC Pitstop has been conducting a survey on their blog page, TechTalk, regarding what users deem most important &#8211; user friendliness or data security.\u00a0 An overwhelming majority believe security supersedes user friendliness.\u00a0 According to the survey results, 86% of users believe security is more important.\u00a0 We all know security should be more important, therefore these results aren&#8217;t surprising.\u00a0 But how many people are implementing this theory?<\/p>\n<p>Increased security means using passwords like &#8220;1LikePancakes!&#8221;, using different passwords for every account, using different account IDs for each account, and implementing multi-layer authentication.\u00a0 Implementing these practices this may hinder the user&#8217;s experience, or ease-of-use for each of their accounts; however, their security will be significantly increased.\u00a0 According to the survey data, implementing these things should be of more importance than keeping login credentials the same with weak passwords.\u00a0 That being said, how many people are still using &#8220;qwerty&#8221;, &#8220;abc123&#8221;, or &#8220;password&#8221;, for their passwords?\u00a0 Not only once, but for all of their accounts?!<\/p>\n<p>We all know security should be more important than our convenience &#8212; but, how many of us are actually doing it?<\/p>\n<p>Please answer our poll below:<\/p>\n<p>[poll id=&#8221;60&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>In an ideal world, a compromise would not be necessary.\u00a0 Unfortunately, we do not live in an &#8220;ideal world&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>User Friendliness or Data Security? 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