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Passwordless Authentication

Passwordless Authentication solutions should provide a consistent login experience across all devices, introduce a frictionless user experience, include an integrated authentication approach, and ensure that no passwords or password hashes are traveling over the network.

Guide
Guide
Passwordless Authentication: Your Guide to a Passwordless Journey
A definitive guide to passwordless authentication for enterprises to secure their business. An infotainment deep dive into authentication, from what passwordless authentication really means, to the...
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KC Open Select
KC Open Select
Passwordless Authentication
Create a shortlist of solutions tailored to your passwordless authentication needs and compare them directly. View solution detailed ratings, demo videos, analyst interviews and contact vendors...
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Tools Choice
Tools Choice
Providers of Verified Identity
Evaluate the perfect provider of verified identity for your enterprise. Examine the entire market segment and get in-depth analysis of products and services. Make a well-informed decision based on...
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Blog
Blog
High Assurance MFA Options for Mobile Devices
In recent years much of the focus in the authentication space has been on MFA, mobile devices, and biometrics. Many technical advances have been made which also serve to increase usability and...
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Leadership Compass
Leadership Compass
Passwordless Authentication
This report provides an overview of the market for Passwordless Authentication products and services and presents you with a compass to help you to find the Passwordless Authentication product or...
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Webinar Recording
Webinar Recording
Shut the Door to Cyber Attackers Permanently
Join security experts from KuppingerCole Analysts and Beyond Identity as they discuss the challenges of first-generation MFA and how to reduce friction while increasing security and improving the...
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Big News from the FIDO Alliance
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Big News from the FIDO Alliance
FIDO Alliance (where FIDO stands for Fast IDentity Online) is an industry consortium formed in July 2012 with a goal to address the lack of interoperability among various strong authentication...
Operation Emmental: another nail in the coffin of SMS-based two-factor authentication
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Operation Emmental: another nail in the coffin of SMS-based two-factor authentication
On Tuesday, security company Trend Micro has unveiled a long and detailed report on “Operation Emmental”, an ongoing attack on online banking sites in several countries around the world. This...
The end of the Social Login begins: FIDO Alliance, Samsung, and PayPal to redefine authentication
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The end of the Social Login begins: FIDO Alliance, Samsung, and PayPal to redefine authentication
Recently, the FIDO Alliance announced that PayPal and Samsung were enabling consumer payments with fingerprint authentication on the new Samsung Galaxy S5. My valued colleague Dave Kearns and I...
Safer, stronger authentication
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Safer, stronger authentication
In my last post (“ Dogged Determination ”) I briefly mentioned the FIDO alliance (Fast Identity Online) with the promise to take a closer look at the emerging internet...
I ♥ Biometrics
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I ♥ Biometrics
If you’ve followed my writings for very long, you know I’m a strong believer in biometric authentication. (See, for example, this Network World column from over a dozen years ago) Why? Well, for...
Take strong authentication into your own hands
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Take strong authentication into your own hands
It was just a couple of months ago that trend-watcher The Next Web announced that Google Chrome had overtaken Microsoft’s Internet Explorer as the Web’s most used browser, a position that IE had...
Passwords, Authentication’s Zombies
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Passwords, Authentication’s Zombies
Another European Identity (and Cloud) Conference has come and gone, and once again it was an exciting week with packed session rooms, and excellent attendance at the evening events. I’m not sure...
The FIDO Alliance – game changer for Internet Security?
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The FIDO Alliance – game changer for Internet Security?
Last week, Google announced that it has joined the FIDO Alliance . FIDO stands for Fast Identity Online. The alliance was formed in July 2012. The mission is to change the nature of online...
Yubico – will Google bring the breakthrough?
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Yubico – will Google bring the breakthrough?
Recently a story about Google hit the news, according to an article in Wired, “ Google declares war on the password ”. Google wants to integrate this into the browser. Their approach is based on...
Strong Authentication, please! But make it stirred, not shaken!
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Strong Authentication, please! But make it stirred, not shaken!
Back to the roots - Strong Authentication is my topic of the month. To be more precise, the combination of several methods of strong authentication all managed through one central, versatile...
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