But now, it’s available as a password-less option. You may already be using the Microsoft Authenticator App as a convenient multi-factor authentication option in addition to a password. We are talking about password-less sign-in options we can identify theĮmpower your employee’s phone to become a password-less authentication method.
Password-less authentication methods are more convenient because it eliminates the password from the authentication completely and replaces it with something you have (either your phone or security key) and something you are (like a biometric that’s tied to the something you are) or something you know (like a PIN that’s tied to something you have). With Microsoft Phone Sign-in, Windows Hello and Security Keys, Microsoft provides new and enhanced solutions that can help you provide secure, password-less options for your users to help protect your company from password spray, phishing, shoulder serving, and other attacks. It was actually a sneak peak how password-less promise would work for enterprises using your corporate credentials based on Azure AD. In their session ”Getting to a world without passwords ” they showed us how frictionless authentication methods like FIDO2 and WebAuthN are on the rise and how fits into the Microsoft ecosystem. Alex Simons and Manini Roy showed us the first baby steps of Microsoft password-less promise. Going back to Ignite 2018, password-less sign-in was announced as one of the highlights alongside Confidential Computing and Microsoft Threat Protection. The why, because passwords are not enough! People use the same password on different systems, they write them down and they just don’t meet the challenge for anything you really want to secure.”
“There is no doubt that over time, people are going to rely less and less on passwords. Microsoft continues to deliver it’s password-less promise and introduces native FIDO2-based authentication to Windows 10 & Azure AD.
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