Passwordless has tremendous hype and adoption with 82% of business leaders stating they’re ready and willing to implement a passwordless approach. But not only do the most common passwordless solutions rely on using a single authentication factor but often these factors are based on something you have – such as a hardware token or a mobile device – introducing security risks, usability challenges, and additional costs. There is a better way to go passwordless – no phones or tokens required.
Passwordless with Identity-Bound Biometrics
Passwordless authentication with Identity-Bound Biometrics uses the person as the credential for authentication. With a simple scan of a finger at any device in any location, it is the safest, most efficient, most cost-effective and most secure option for a range of scenarios and business-critical operations across industries.
Key Benefits
Security
Positively identify the person completing an action with multi-factor authentication (MFA) powered by Identity-Bound Biometrics, ensuring the intended user – and only that user – is accessing a shared or remote system.
Cost Efficiency
Reduce your overall cost by installing just one fingerprint scanner per desktop for a minimal, one-time investment, eliminating the need to purchase multiple tokens or mobile devices.
Flexibility
Deploy a passwordless workflow that fits the unique needs and requirements of your business – including the ability to go passwordless without the use of mobile devices or tokens.
Process Validation
Ensure that only the right people access a system and validate they are the approved individuals completing steps or taking actions within a process or transaction.
Save countless hours and increase productivity with a consistent, frictionless user experience that’s quick and seamless, requiring just one-touch authentication across every workstation.
Shared workstations are critical for many businesses to operate efficiently, but also present security issues. A single workstation is used by multiple people, and oftentimes in unsafe environments like manufacturing floors or where mobile devices are not permitted – like contact centers or certain financial institutions.
In light of a growing threat environment, both auditors and the IT Security Officer of the Orange Bank & Trust company were determined to make the shift away from password-based authentication. However, with shared workstations being a fundamental component of their daily operations, not just any, common solution would fit the bill. Learn how this organization took cyber risks head-on with passwordless authentication powered by Identity-Bound Biometrics (IBB) and avoided unnecessary high costs and security risks.
Putting your trust in what you have – any sort of device or piece of hardware – does not meet the standards of today’s cybersecurity needs. Unfortunately, most passwordless solutions hinge on exactly that, relying on tokens, devices or phones to execute the authentication process as a single factor. Core challenges with these methods include:
High Costs + Investments
Multiple tokens for each employee or separate mobile devices or data plans are necessary.
Insufficient Security
Trust is based on the device or token – not the actual person completing an action.
Prohibitive Usage
Extra devices prevent employeesfrom completing essential, daily operations.
Even with passwordless authentication, malware, man-in-the-browser, and other attacks are possible. For example, hackers can install malware specifically designed to intercept one-time passcodes (OTPs). Or, they could insert trojans into web browsers to intercept shared data like one-time passcodes or magic links.
With that said, passwordless techniques are inherently safer than passwords. E.g., to hack a password-based system, a bad actor may use a dictionary attack, which is often considered the most rudimentary hacking technique (keep trying different passwords until you get a match).
Passkeys are a passwordless login method. Half of the passkey is stored on your device or in your password manager, and the other half stays with the website or app, so there's nothing to remember. The two parts authenticate the login when you sign in using a passkey.
The well-known techniques include fingerprints, face recognition, iris, palm, and DNA-based recognition. Multimodal biometrics combines several biometric sources to increase security and accuracy.
Biometrics are considered to be safer than passwords because they're harder to steal. While biometrics can be used as an MFA method when signing in with your username and password, they can also be used when signing into accounts using passwordless authentication like passkeys.
Passwordless Authentication is an authentication method that allows a user to gain access to an application or IT system without entering a password or answering security questions. Instead, the user provides some other form of evidence such as a fingerprint, proximity badge, or hardware token code.
Read expert reviews of the top Passwordless Authentication solutions, comparing key features such as multi-factor authentication, single sign-on, integrations and reporting.
Try to include numbers, symbols, and both uppercase and lowercase letters. Avoid using words that can be found in the dictionary. For example, swimming1 would be a weak password. Random passwords are the strongest.
If someone gets your device, they can't do anything with your passkey. And if you lose your old device containing your passkey, you can easily create a new passkey on your new device.
Can thieves access passkeys from a stolen device? If an attacker steals your phone, they can't access your passkeys right away. The theoretical attacker would still need to unlock your device. You might have Touch ID, Face ID, or another kind of biometrics set up.
Since passkeys aren't exclusively the domain of Apple, once it's fully launched, you should be able to generate them on non-Apple devices for passwordless sign-in with your Apple ID, too, using Android or Windows using either the Chrome or Edge browser, which each support passkeys.
Unlike passwords, biometrics eliminates the need to remember anything. Biometric authentication leverages unique physical or behavioral traits to identify, verify, or authenticate our identity.
Examples include, but are not limited to fingerprint, palm veins, face recognition, DNA, palm print, hand geometry, iris recognition, retina, odor/scent, voice, shape of ears and gait.
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