In a recently published academic paper accepted at the 35th USENIX Security Symposium, researchers from Ruhr University Bochum, Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences, and the University of Wuppertal shared the results of evaluating 103 live passkey deployments. Titled ‘The State of Passkeys: Studying the Adoption and Security of Passkeys on the Web’, the research highlights
You may have missed this recent announcement Microsoft made about adding native support for third-party passkey managers (commonly referred to as credential managers) in Windows 11. From the perspective of anyone committed to building stronger, more usable identity systems, this is an important development, and paired with the introduction of passkey syncing in their own
Getting rid of passwords has never been the end goal, not really. The mission has always been to make digital life simpler and safer for everyone, and to give organizations the ability to operate and deliver services securely, without unnecessary friction. Moving to phishing-resistant, passwordless authentication is a critical part of that, but it doesn’t
I’m back from an exhilarating, albeit tiring, week at the FIDO Alliance’s annual Authenticate conference. As you probably already know, I recently joined the Alliance as Chief Technology Officer, which made this experience a little bit different than years past. There is a lot going on in the digital identity ecosystem right now, which really
