Do you believe Passwordless authentication is suitable for you?

How can anyone log in and access the resource without a password? its a security flaw right? we never imagine an identity environment without a password, all these years we have been asked to use a strong and complex password to secure our data, how without password user can be authenticated

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Passwordless authentication is the feature and in some point, we all are going to migrate to this as this is more secure and not dependence on user knowledge on passwords/security, most of the security gap/hacks through users simple weak passwords which is major vulnerability failing the security mechanism

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How can user get authentication and authorization without password?

Authorization without password using advanced technologies
like biometrics, user-generated PIN, and public/private key
cryptography, also WebAuthN(Web Authentication API) and FIDO2 (Fast
Identity Online) can be used to enabling passwordless authentication
the idea is to replace passwords with the existing advanced technologies that already we are using, no major investment are required, just to leverage the existing infrastructure like smartphones, fingerprint scanners, security keys

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Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is used to secure our environment as the native password-based authentication is not enough to protect the data, this also increases the complexity and affects the user experience as the user have to validate twist with a different mechanisms

Passwordless authentication helps to overcome this and gives the simple and convenient experience to the users, its a kind of Multi-factor authentication which replace the password with other more secure mechanisms, all are moving towards this like said one day we don’t need to remember any password to access multiple systems

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Passwordless is a way to go and simple also reduce the cost by eliminating the help desk resource as no more password reset/account lockout and many more

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