Cisco Rolls Out Duo Passwordless Authentication, Sees WebAuthn Usage Surge

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Cisco Rolls Out Duo Passwordless Authentication, Sees WebAuthn Usage Surge

Posted by Wolf Goerlich

Excerpt from: Cisco Rolls Out Duo Passwordless Authentication, Sees WebAuthn Usage Surge

Cisco plans to roll out its Duo Passwordless Authentication globally next Wednesday. This push is in line with the findings from Duo Security’s recent report which showed that passwordless adoption continues to climb.

“We’re starting to reach a tipping point where the hardware is ubiquitous, the standards are in place, and enough services support the standards, and that’s really driving that increase that we see in web authentications. So now … organizations can adopt them with confidence,” Goerlich said.

Read the full article: https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/cisco-rolls-out-duo-passwordless-authentication-sees-webauthn-usage-surge/2022/11/

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Has Covid-19 killed the password? 

Posted by Wolf Goerlich

The pandemic has shone a spotlight on the weaknesses of the most common form of digital authentication.

Excerpt from: Has Covid-19 killed the password?

It is also important to remember that biometric devices have advanced significantly over the past decade, says Goerlich. Continuing to enhance these features – for example, by making it standard to make access to a system contingent on normal user behaviour patterns – will prove essential in shoring up public trust in the technology.

“Some of the set-ups that I’ve seen, a criminal would have to steal your fingerprint, steal your phone, steal your laptop, log in from a region that you’re usually working at… and then start accessing applications that you normally access,” says Goerlich. “That’s a lot of complexity and a lot of hurdles for a criminal to jump through.”

Even so, the end is far from nigh for the password itself. For one thing, upgrading corporate infrastructure to support passwordless authentication remains a gargantuan task. “You’re going to have this really long tail, which could go on [for] years, if not decades, of legacy systems that we’re going to continue to maintain, and we’re going to continue to maintain because they still provide business value,” says Goerlich.

Read the full article: https://techmonitor.ai/cybersecurity/has-covid-19-killed-the-password

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Let’s not Become Password Huggers: Passwordless Guest Post on SC

Posted by Wolf Goerlich

SC Magazine has a guest blog from me on passwordless authentication, and the importance of addressing usability, manageability, and defensibility.

Change happens at an uneven pace. Take the latest smartphone. The camera still has a lovely shutter click, though digital cameras have long since surpassed shutter cameras. The QWERTY keyboard was designed to solve the problem of jamming in 19th century typewriters. And yes, to open apps and websites alike, we’re still using an idea conceived of 60 years ago for mainframes: the password.

We cling to the password. It’s security’s first, and sometimes disastrously, last line of defense. As surely as we know the camera doesn’t have to click, we know the password can be replaced by stronger factors. In fact, with adaptive and contextual controls, replacing the password means greater security and user experience benefits.

What’s holding us back from moving forward with passwordless?

Read the full article here: Three ways we can move the industry to passwordless authentication