Do you hate remembering passwords? Soon, you may be able to forget them for good.
For years, we’ve relied on a secret we share with a computer to prove we are who we say we are. But passwords are easily compromised through a phishing scam or malware, data breach or some simple social engineering. Once in the wrong hands, these flimsy strings of characters can be used to impersonate us all over the internet.
Slowly, we’re kicking the password habit. With data breaches costing billions, the pressure is on to find more foolproof ways to verify someone’s identity.
“We are moving into a world which we’re calling passwordless, which is the ability for our applications, devices and computers to recognize us by something other than the old-fashioned password,” says Wolfgang Goerlich, advisory chief information security officer for Cisco-owned security firm Duo.
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