For modern IT or Internet users, logging in to a website or app using a password is all too familiar. Increasingly, however, passwords create security concerns as they can be easily cracked or stolen. This is where passwordless authentication provides a more secure and convenient alternative.

“Password fatigue is real. Users demand faster, frictionless ways to authenticate without remembering complex strings,” said Edwardcher Monreal, Principal Solutions Architect for IAM Consumer Authentication Solutions at HID.


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VentureBeat: W3C approves WebAuthn as the web standard for password-free logins

VentureBeat reports that the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today declared that the Web Authentication…

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Engadget: The web just got an official password-free login standard

Web Authentication (aka WebAuthn) has been a de facto standard for no-password web sign-ins for…

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CNET: Google looks to leave passwords behind for a billion Android devices

Unveiled at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona: Android passwords could one day go the way…

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