passwordless authentication

Breaches are more common than ever, phishing scams continue to have success and AI is helping to take cybercrime to a whole new level. Hornetsecurity’s Cyber Security Report 2024 analyzed 45 billion emails sent in 2023 — 3.6% were considered malicious. That’s 1.6 billion potentially harmful emails. Almost half of all email-based attacks use phishing to obtain the passwords of users. If a user falls for a phishing scam and their credentials are compromised, multi-factor…

Passwordless technology is gaining traction due to the dizzying number of passwords that the average user accumulates. When you tally up email, phone, banking, travel, rideshare, hospitality, browsers and the fact that just about every service wants you to download their app and enter a password, it is no wonder that most users repeat the same passwords or adjust them only slightly (making it easy for hackers to crack them). Passwordless authentication is a way…