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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Der Bank Blog: Biometric Authentication Methods Continue to Gain Ground

Bank customers are increasingly demanding secure and convenient biometric authentication procedures for banking services. Banks…

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e27: An Online World Without Passwords. Will you Embrace it?

Andrew Shikiar, Executive Director and Chief Marketing Officer of the FIDO Alliance, discusses how the…

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Planet Biometrics: Transmit Security Launches BlindID

Transmit Security, the Identity Experience company, today announced the release of BindID, the industry’s first customer authentication…

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