Passwordless Authentication: Replacing Passwords with Biometrics and Tokens

 

It’s World Password Day again, and we’re very excited to talk about one of our favorite topics – you (and hopefully no hackers) guessed it – passwords! So far, we’ve covered the history of passwords, what a strong password looks like, and how to check if your passwords have been hacked. Today, let’s explore how passwords, which have long served as the cornerstone of digital security, 

Why Passwordless Authentication Is Better than a Password



Passwordless authentication creates a smoother experience than traditional username and password (U/P) authentication for both you and your users (that can be more secure if it relies on WebAuthn). Not only does this save you money, but it can even lead to an increase in sales in some cases.
  • Reduced security risks: According to Verizon’s 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), credential vulnerabilities account for over 84% of all data breaches. Eliminating passwords altogether reduces your risk for a data breach because it reduces a bad actor’s ability to use them (and the unsafe behaviors that often expose them) against you and your users.

    For example, cybercriminals often use credential stuffing (using compromised user credentials from one breach to gain access to another organization) to breach an organization because more than two-thirds of all people reuse passwords.

  • Reduced costs (and increased sales) through better user experience: The average person has 100 passwords to remember and spends 12.6 minutes of every week resetting them (often through a call to a help desk). This ends up costing your organization more money in password resets and customer service time than you think. For example, although the industry standard is $70 per reset, Auth0 customers report up to $120 per reset, even before they’ve called the helpdesk.

How to Implement Passwordless Authentication:

Coding passwordless authentication is a lot more complex than simply telling your dev team to change the login box. In fact, if your login box was a light switch, implementing passwordless authentication, for many organizations, would be more akin to rewiring the whole house. However, third-party providers offer a rapid and more secure implementation that is more secure and up-to-date than anything that can be built in-house.
The extent to which that analogy holds true for you will depend on the design of your existing identity and access management (IAM) systems.



About Auth0

Auth0 by Okta takes a modern approach to customer identity and enables organizations to provide secure access to any application, for any user. Auth0 is a highly customizable platform that is as simple as development teams want, and as flexible as they need. Safeguarding billions of login transactions each month, Auth0 delivers convenience, privacy, and security so customers can focus on innovation.


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Hyper-Scalable Edge Mesh Networks for IoT Applications

Image
  We’re surrounded by intelligent things: smartphones, self-driving vehicles, smart homes, and even smart cities. Millions of sensors generate, process, and transmit countless amounts of data to make our lives easier, safer, and more comfortable. However, there are still a lot of challenges that need to be dealt with, from the high cost of hardware and technologies to the slow speed of data transfer. Mesh networking is a promising approach to organizing device-to-device communication within Internet of Things (IoT) platforms. With its help, IoT networks can work faster and more efficiently without requiring expensive hardware or consuming too much power. But is mesh networking the silver bullet for every IoT project. Why is it so complicated to organize IoT wireless communication? T o better understand the role of mesh networking in the IoT world, we need to look closer at IoT communication hardware and basic communication requirements for IoT devices. An IoT network can consist of...
Read more

Distributed AI Models: Training and Inference Across Multiple Nodes

Image
  Distributed Inference: Imagine having a language model so large it can’t fit on a single computer. That’s where distributed inference comes in. It’s like dividing a big task among multiple workers. vLLM is a tool that helps break down these massive models and spread them across multiple GPUs or even entire machines, making it possible to work with them efficiently. vLLM: vLLM is a fast and easy-to-use library for LLM inference and serving. vLLM is fast with: State-of-the-art serving throughput Efficient management of attention key and value memory with PagedAttention Continuous batching of incoming requests Fast model execution with CUDA/HIP graph Quantizations:  GPTQ ,  AWQ , INT4, INT8, and FP8. Optimized CUDA kernels, including integration with FlashAttention and FlashInfer. How to decide the distributed inference strategy? Before going into the details of distributed inference and serving, let’s first make it clear when to use distributed inference and what are the ...
Read more

Revolutionizing Supply Chain Management with Blockchain

Image
Abstract Blockchain has shown promise to transform supply chains due to its unique combination of features such as decentralized networks, security, smart contracts, and auditability. Numerous supply chains have examined and implemented blockchain to ease global supply chain issues such as lack of traceability and reliability and poor information management. Blockchain can address sustainability concerns such as data manipulation and fabrication, poor environmental safety, and product provenance. Despite the potential, several barriers for blockchain adoption exist. This chapter provides an overview of blockchain and its underlying features. We highlight the potential application of blockchain for supply chain management and sustainability and propose a framework that can guide successful adoption of this technology. We introduce a few use cases from different industries that adopted blockchain for their supply chain operations. This chapter presents several blockchain barriers that im...
Read more