"The Benefits And Challenges of Passwordless Authentication"

More and more organizations are adopting passwordless authentication. Researchers at Gartner predict that, by 2022, 60% of large and global enterprises and 90% of midsize enterprises will implement passwordless methods in more than half of use cases. Passwordless authentication can be used both for personal and business purposes. When it comes to personal use almost, every user has multiple online accounts, making it hard to create and even harder to remember all passwords. Therefore, a device with fingerprint or face recognition is handy. For enterprises, the need for passwordless authentication is even more crucial, as it provides the ability to implement more granular access control with a stricter zero-trust policy. Passwordless authentication also allows enterprises to eliminate the burden of remembering new passwords every three months for users and reduces the cost of supporting IT departments' whole system. The researchers argue that although passwordless represents a more secure authentication method, there are still challenges in deploying this model. The most significant issues are associated with the total budget and migration complexity. The budget should include costs for buying hardware and expenses for setup and configuration. There is also the challenge of overcoming the old-school mentality when employees and IT leadership are resistant to a move away from familiar and conventional security methods.

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