Despite exciting progress toward more secure and usable factors, the best MFA mechanism for consumers really isn’t MFA at all — it’s passkeys. Passkeys are a FIDO authenticator with the advantage of being backed up to the cloud, so if you lose your device or buy a new one, all you must do is sign into your iCloud or Google Play account to recover your passkeys. Passkeys use public key cryptography and device biometrics, making them resistant to many known attacks, and are easy for the user.


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Communications of the ACM: Passkeys unlock a new era for authentication

Until recently, replacing passwords has ranked somewhere between tricky and impossible. Passkeys completely eliminate passwords,…

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SC Media: What should Musk do to better secure Twitter users after 2FA goes away?

While Twitter CEO Elon Musk has defended the move to ban 2FA for non-subscribers as…

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SC Media: GitHub to roll out 2FA for all contributors starting March 13

GitHub will begin its official rollout of two-factor authentication for developers who contribute code on…

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