A recent SpyCloud study showed that over 64% of people reuse their passwords. Some experts continue to stress the use of password managers to mitigate this issue, but this could be squashed by eliminating passwords all together. Going passwordless gained momentum in the second half of 2022 when Apple, Google and Microsoft committed to expanding their support for the FIDO standard. FIDO’s work has resulted in the development of FIDO Universal Second Factor (FIDO U2F), FIDO Universal Authentication Framework, and FIDO2- which have been embraced and further utilized by a few of the largest tech companies in the world.


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Dark Reading: Is SMS 2FA Enough Login Protection?

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Engadget: Microsoft Edge now supports passwordless sign-ins

Edge users will soon be able to securely sign into websites without having to remember…

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ZDNet: Windows 10 moves closer to killing off passwords with Edge WebAuthn logins

Through Microsoft Edge’s support of WebAuthn, users will be able to sign in using a…

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