In April we invited organizations around the world to take the Passkey Pledge, a voluntary commitment to increase awareness and adoption of passkey sign-ins to make the web safer and more accessible.
Passkey adoption is growing rapidly, with tens of billions of user accounts now equipped with the option to use a passkey instead of relying on passwords. We launched the Passkey Pledge to help rally the industry and accelerate adoption even further, helping even more organizations to realize the dual benefits of heightened security and a frictionless user experience.
When we launched the Pledge, we set out five goals to suit a range of organizations and use-cases, with the aim of achieving them over the next 12 months. Over 200 companies responded to our call and took the pledge. As we reach the halfway point in this journey, there have already been some incredible success stories and we wanted to highlight and share some of them with the community for inspiration.
Atlancube: The company’s commitment to the Passkey Pledge “accelerated our internal development and certification timelines” culminating in its product passing interoperability testing and successfully completing both FIDO2 CTAP2.1 and U2F L1 authenticator certifications. Primarily, this will help Atlancube prepare to launch a certified hardware security key that supports passkey sign-ins. It also helped increase awareness of the importance of passkeys among its engineering and business teams, strengthening cross-functional collaboration.
Dashlane: The password manager and credential security platform has upgraded the security of user passkeys it stores, by signing passkey challenges in a remote secure environment. The company has also integrated FIDO2 security keys into its product, replacing the master password with a hardware-backed secret to encrypt the user’s vault.
First Credit Union: The member-owned financial institution in New Zealand with over 60,000 members partnered with Authsignal to implement FIDO Certified passkey infrastructure. It adopted passkeys as it was the only approach that struck the right balance between security, usability and accessibility for its diverse membership base. Since rolling out passkeys, 58.4% of its members adopted the new authentication experience, with 54.5% of all authentications now using passkeys. In addition, over 23,500 members enrolled in multi-factor authentication. Read more in the First Credit Union case study.
Glide identity: Glide Identity has achieved FIDO certification for its new products, joining the ranks of certified providers delivering standards-based authentication solutions. This certification validates Glide Identity’s commitment to interoperability and positions the company to serve organizations worldwide seeking reliable, FIDO-compliant authentication solutions.
HYPR: Took the Passkey Pledge to help realize a public good in eliminating shared secrets and passwords. The company has already delivered on its pledge, deploying passkeys at scale to Fortune 500 enterprises and beyond, including two of the four largest US banks.
LY Corporation: Made its Passkey Pledge to contribute to the industry-wide adoption of passkeys. During the last six months the company has increased the number of touchpoints where passkey sign-in is triggered, as well as publishing educational content to improve user literacy about passkeys. This has resulted in improved passkey sign-in rates of 41%, and reduced SMS transmission costs by replacing SMS OPTs with passkeys.
NTT DOCOMO: Has made significant progress on its Pledge to demonstrate actions that measurably increase the use of passkeys by users when signing into their services. The company has continuously improved the user experience by improving and refining messages on passkey enrollment and error pages to make them more customer friendly. NTT DOCOMO is confident of reaching its target to increase passkey usage ratio by 10% within the year since taking the Pledge.
Secfense: Has enabled support for passkey sign-ins across enterprise environments without requiring changes to existing applications. The company has implemented large-scale passwordless rollouts in highly regulated sectors, including banking and insurance, completing projects in just a few months. These deployments replaced passwords with phishing-resistant FIDO authentication, without modifying existing systems or disrupting users, proving that full passkey adoption is possible even in legacy infrastructures.
Thales: Over the last six months, Thales has extensively promoted the benefits of passwordless authentication and passkeys to its customer base and other organizations through sponsored events, workshops, webinars and other channels. This is part of the company’s long-standing commitment to fight against phishing and improve both security and user convenience.
We’d like to extend a big thank you to all those who signed up to the pledge and for sharing an early snapshot of the progress you’ve made. We’ll provide more insights and updates as the Passkey Pledge moves into the final 6-month stretch. It’s not too late to take the Pledge this year – we’ve already seen how much can be achieved in such a short space of time. If you’ve already taken the Pledge, tell us about your progress as we’d love to share your success with others in the future.
