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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POLITICO: Oregon Senator Ron Wyden Calls for Social Security Administration to Adopt FIDO Authentication

VIA POLITICO Morning Cybersecurity Report 10/6/17 NOW THAT’S WHAT I’M TOKEN ABOUT — The Social…

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SC Magazine: Mnuchin hails FIDO authentication standards

While speaking at the Federal Identity Forum & Exposition, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin called out…

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The Economist: Where are the flaws in two-factor authentication?

The Economist reports that two-factor authentication methods using SMS or OTPs are flawed, and that…

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