The death of passwords is near, so get your business ready

[searcher]

The death of passwords is near, so get your business ready​

By Lewis Maddison
published about 5 hours ago

New passwordless technologies are vastly more secure and user friendly, ForgeRock says

As we increasingly rely on biometric data such as fingerprints and facial recognition to secure our digital lives, many of us are reaching a point where using strings of characters such as passwords to encrypt our data will become a thing of the past - and perhaps quite soon.

Big tech seems to agree. The triumvirate of Apple, Microsoft and Google all recently signed up to FIDO2 WebAuthn, a standard created by the Fast IDentity Online Alliance (FIDO) - an industry association which aims to shift our reliance away from passwords in favor of text-free alternatives.

And according to Eve Maler, CTO at access management firm ForgeRock, passwords are no longer a viable option for the security conscious, with a number of advanced technologies looking to replace them.

Full article here:

The death of passwords is near, so get your business ready

New passwordless technologies are vastly more secure and user friendly, ForgeRock says

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[Buck]

let's just get it over with...




it'll give me something to do while watching TV (dig it out)

 

[pmbug]

Biometric data isn't (5th Amendment) protected information. Text passwords are. As a lawyer once explained it to me:

If you had a passcode tattooed on your finger, there would be no Fifth Amendment problem with the police typing that passcode into the phone. Choosing to use a fingerprint passcode is effectively tattooing your passcode on your finger.

 

[Voodoo]

I refuse to use any biometric data. Those three big Communist companies can pound sand.

 

[arminius]

There's some fancy sounding chains there, making it much easy for them to get into our financial and personal lives.

 

[OldGarandDad]

I use a YubiKey instead of biometric devices. The YubiKey has long been FIDO2 compliant.

I actually have 2 YubiKeys. One for personal use and one for work. The two never mix.

 

[nickndfl]

Divest from the system, so you are not exposed.

 

[searcher]

I use a YubiKey instead of biometric devices. The YubiKey has long been FIDO2 compliant.

I actually have 2 YubiKeys. One for personal use and one for work. The two never mix.

Had to look this up.

YubiKey - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org