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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E-Commerce Magazine: More than one out of two French people give up on their online purchase because of passwords

According to the latest report by the FIDO Alliance, consumer frustration with e-commerce is manifesting…

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heise: Risk Based Authentication

With the risk assessment RBA, online services want to combat password abuse. But cybercrime is…

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Handelsblatt: The end of passwords is near

Passwords are annoying and almost always useless because they are easy to guess. How convenient…

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