Mark St. John, Co-Founder and COO at Neon Cyber was recently featured in a great roundup by VMBlog of cybersecurity leaders.
Mark says
“At a technical level, we have to meet users where they are at, which includes our non-technical friends & family. The industry has had everyone's best intentions in mind when trying to encourage everyone to adopt complex passwords/phrases for every site. We quickly realized that this led to password reuse. Getting the average person to use MFA is trending upward, but for me, the best bang for the buck is still the password manager. Password managers, with their seamless functionality across devices, sites, and authentication methods, are designed with user-friendliness in mind. These tools have kept pace with the times and offer several suites for managing personal and family accounts, some even providing data scraper removal and other identity protection methods to offer basic operational security to the least technically inclined among us. As we shift towards passkeys and more advanced authentication types, we can't pretend that the legacy methods aren't still the main use case for our neighbors!”
Read more and get a reality check at https://vmblog.com/archive/2025/10/02/the-cybersecurity-reality-check-industry-leaders-share-critical-insights-for-cybersecurity-awareness-month-2025.aspx