The Stealthy Success of Passkeys

It’s interesting to note that many people will happily unlock their phone by just looking at it and have no problem tapping their bank card against a store’s point of sale terminal, but if the term password security is presented to them, they have a blank expression, or worse, shrink away. Why are some technologies so readily accepted while others seem to be a tough sell?


Securing Our Data and Environments


In this AI-enhanced era, time is not our ally when it comes to keeping documents and environments secure. Threat actors from all over the world strive continually to break any type of security available, and passwords have long been a relatively easy mark. Most end users prefer passwords that are easy to remember, but, of course, that also makes them easier to guess, brute force, or spray. More complex, generated passwords are better, but this inspires bad actors to turn to social engineering to wheedle the secrets out of the human user rather than spend time and resources trying to crack the code.


The weak point of all passwords is that the secret, once revealed, is useless as a defence. Multi-factor authentication was the industry’s reaction to password weaknesses by adding layers. But these, too, are phishable and are prone to being intercepted. Although MFA and 2FA add this extra layer of security by demanding proof of your identity, they still end up at the same password. It also adds an extra step, more actions that people don’t like to do.


Introducing Passkeys – The End of The Password Era


The age of passwords has passed, and we have entered the age of passkeys. But the weird thing is that we, the end users, have entered th ..

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