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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TechCrunch: X adds support for passkeys on iOS after removing SMS 2FA support last year

X, formerly known as Twitter, has introduced support for passkeys, a secure login method for…

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Computer Weekly: Thanks to AI tools, attackers also have an easy time of it

Instead of fighting AI with AI, it’s time for companies to rewrite the rules and…

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Professional Security Magazine: Mitigating AI security risks

Major tech companies and members of the FIDO Alliance such as Google, Apple, and Microsoft have been…

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