This is the good news about today’s MFA environment – there is no shortage of options to choose from. For most organisations, this will mean using the smartphone as the core authenticator, either running an app or using some form of biometrics or FIDO2 WebAuthn. For privileged users, this might be backed up with the gold standard of a FIDO U2F hardware token.


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The Canadian Press: Death of the password? New web standard trades passcodes for biometrics

The Canadian Press reports that experts are “excited about the prospect of making logins “unphishable””…

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The Guardian: RIP passwords: new web standard designed to replace login method

In this article, The Guardian’s Samuel Gibbs reports that “WebAuthn will eliminate need for passwords…

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Motherboard: Biometric and App Logins Will Soon Be Pushed Across the Web

In this article, FIDO Alliance Executive Director Brett McDowell tells Motherboard about WebAuthn, saying “What…

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