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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The Wall Street Journal: Technology Alliance Says it is Closer to Killing Off Passwords 

The FIDO Alliance, whose members include Apple, Google and Microsoft, says it is readying a…

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WIRED: A Big Bet to Kill the Password for Good

After a decade of work, the FIDO Alliance says it’s found the missing piece in…

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Protocol: Protocol Enterprise Newsletter

The FIDO Alliance published an outline of technology that could help finally bring on the…

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