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The death of passwords is near, so get your business ready
By Lewis Maddisonpublished 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.
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The death of passwords is near, so get your business ready
New passwordless technologies are vastly more secure and user friendly, ForgeRock says
