The Passwordless Imperative

For decades, passwords have been the default mechanism for securing digital access. They are deeply embedded in enterprise systems and workflows, yet they were never designed to withstand today’s threat landscape.

Passwords are easy to steal, easy to reuse, and costly to manage at scale. Despite years of awareness training and layered defenses, credential-based attacks remain one of the most common causes of security breaches. At the same time, password resets continue to consume a disproportionate share of IT support resources, slowing productivity across the organization.


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Forbes: Cyber – The Threat Is Real

This Forbes article reports on how the FIDO Alliance focus on industry standards for two…

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Cyberscoop: NIST urged to include multi-factor authentication in cyber framework

In this Cyberscoop article, FIDO Alliance Executive Director Brett McDowell and Jeremy Grant of the…

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Cyberscoop: It’s time to put multi-factor authentication in the NIST Cyber Framework

In this article in Cyberscoop, Executive Director Brett McDowell explains why multi-factor authentication is a…

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