The Stealthy Success Of Passkeys
IT Security Guru, Monday, November 18th, 2024
It's interesting to note that many people will happily unlock their phone by just looking at it and have no problem tapping their bank card against a store's point of sale terminal, but if the term password security is presented to them, they have a blank expression, or worse, shrink away. Why are some technologies so readily accepted while others seem to be a tough sell?
In this AI-enhanced era, time is not our ally when it comes to keeping documents and environments secure. Threat actors from all over the world strive continually to break any type of security available, and passwords have long been a relatively easy mark. Most end users prefer passwords that are easy to remember, but, of course, that also makes them easier to guess, brute force, or spray. More complex, generated passwords are better, but this inspires bad actors to turn to social engineering to wheedle the secrets out of the human user rather than spend time and resources trying to crack the code.