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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Computing: Passwordless authentication gaining popularity, Computing research finds

Half of UK IT leaders polled say their organisation is now using passkeys. Passkeys are…

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Finextra: Deep Dive: Mastercard Verifiable Intent vs Visa Trusted Agent Protocol

Agentic commerce breaks a core assumption of online payments, that a human is directly clicking…

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The Defiant: Mastercard and Google Team Up to Build Trust for AI-Powered Shopping

Mastercard has unveiled Verifiable Intent, a new open, standards-based trust framework co-developed with Google, designed…

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