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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NZZ Magazine: The end of the password search

Apple is not cooking up its own security soup when implementing passkeys. The passkey integration…

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UploadMagazin: Passkeys and FIDO: The future without passwords explained

The future without passwords is explained in this German feature piece, exploring why passkeys are…

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Security Insider: What is FIDO?

This piece in a top tier German security magazine offers an overview of the FIDO…

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