Password-based security is an oxymoron. With over 15 billion exposed credentials leaked on the dark web, and 54% of security incidents caused by credential theft, passwords simply aren’t effective at keeping out threat actors. 

Passwords’ widespread exploitability has led to a range of vendors, including Google, Microsoft, Okta and LastPass, to move toward passwordless authentication options as part of the FIDO Alliance


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The Verge: Chrome and Firefox will support a new standard for password-free logins

In his reporting on the newly announced FIDO2 Project, The Verge reporter Russell Brandon predicts…

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Ars Technica: Practical passwordless authentication comes a step closer with WebAuthn

ArsTechnica reports that the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and FIDO Alliance announced that a…

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CNET: Password-free web security is coming to Chrome, Firefox, Edge

CNET reports that leading browsers Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge will support WebAuthn…

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