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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International Security Journal: The role of MFA in the fight against phishing

Based on FIDO Alliance and W3C standards, passkeys replace passwords with cryptographic key pairs.This requires…

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Gear Patrol: Want a Faster, More Secure Way of Logging into X on Your iPhone? Use a Passkey

X (formerly Twitter) has introduced passkeys for iPhone users as an alternative to traditional passwords.…

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ITPro: The end of passwords – and how businesses will embrace it

Big tech firms including Microsoft, Apple and Google have been moving towards a passwordless future for several years, with solutions…

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