Half of UK IT leaders polled say their organisation is now using passkeys.
Passkeys are emerging into the mainstream as a practical and more secure alternative to passwords, promising a better user experience when signing in to apps and services.
Passkeys replace passwords with hardware bound cryptographic credentials that are tied to the user’s device.
Developed and promoted by the FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance, passkeys use public-key cryptography to authenticate the user. The user’s device generates a key-pair retains the private key and sends the public key to the app or service, which then verifies the presence of the corresponding private key via a handshake mechanism.
