These two reports will be divided based on use case but will be based on one questionnaire and one briefing. Vendors can decide which report is a best fit for them or if their solution is a fit for both. These are updates of our 2024 reports Passwordless Authentication for Consumers and Passwordless Authenticiation for Enterprises. If you click on the links in the names of the reports, you can have a look at what was included.
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 anymore.
Thus, this Leadership Compass analyzes which of the Passwordless Authentication vendors in both Enterprise and Consumer facing markets are best suited in providing:
- An integrated and secure authentication approach
- A strong level of usability (e.g., simple device onboarding; recurring authentication)
- An authentication method that eliminates passwords for authentication and authorization
- An ability for organizations to control which users and devices can access sensitive information (privilege)
- Simple onboarding and device registration/mapping
- Replace passwords with cryptographically secure methods
- Prevent identity credential theft, identity fraud, and phishing
- Ability to create and enforce authentication policies
- Ability to provide and evaluate context for risk-based authentication scenarios
- Integration to access management products via standards such as SAML or OAuth/OIDC
- Integration capabilities to established platforms such as Microsoft Entra ID, Ping Identity, Okta, and more
- Support for a variety of authenticators
- Integration with MDM (Mobile Device Management) and UEM (Unified Endpoint Management) solutions
We expect solutions to cover a majority of these capabilities at least at a good baseline level.
