HHS OCR is the latest federal agency pushing for more widespread adoption of multifactor authentication. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Jen Easterly last October during an address at a FIDO Alliance conference also urged technology vendors to “forcefully nudge” users into MFA. 


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Ars Technica: Practical passwordless authentication comes a step closer with WebAuthn

ArsTechnica reports that the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and FIDO Alliance announced that a…

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CNET: Password-free web security is coming to Chrome, Firefox, Edge

CNET reports that leading browsers Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge will support WebAuthn…

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Engadget: Web standard brings password-free sign-ins to virtually any site

Tech companies have been trying to do away with web passwords for years, but now…

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