The Harlow Report-GIS
2023 Edition
ISSN 0742-468X
Since 1978
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first published week of: 02/20/2023
Why Passkeys From Apple, Google, Microsoft May Soon Replace Your Passwords
by Barbara Collins
Apple, Google and Microsoft are just some of the technology companies pushing more users towards using passkeys over passwords, which could become standard within a year.
The death of the internet password has been proclaimed many times, but this time, it may actually be coming sooner than you think. Its replacement? The passkey.
Passkeys are the way of the future in basic internet security as they’re intrinsically more secure and phishing resistant, according to Kathleen Moriarty, the chief technology officer at the Center for Internet Security. As major companies including Apple, Google and Microsoft work with the standards developed by the FIDO Alliance and World Wide Web Consortium — two organizations that create password authentication standards — to provide support for passkeys on their platforms, the list of organizations offering passkeys as an alternative to passwords is continuing to grow.
“Passkeys are an example of what security should be: seamless and invisible to the end user,” said Moriarty.
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