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Beyond Identity  vs traditional MFA

Traditional MFA: A false sense of security

Don’t settle for outdated authentication methods that slow users down and leave gaps in your defenses. Beyond Identity offers continuous, device-bound, passwordless MFA built for cyber defense.

Traditional MFA

What is it?

Validating both users and devices continuously, as separate but equally important requirements for risk-based authentication.

Single-point in time authorization of users only, oftentimes using phishable factors that can leave organizations open to risk.

User experience

Frictionless

Authenticates users through built-in biometrics or device unlock — no codes, links, or second devices required.

Frustrating

Adds friction with passwords, OTPs, push notifications, and secondary devices.

Phishing-resistant

100% Phish-resistant

100% resistant — uses tamper-proof, device-bound cryptographic passkeys.

Vulnerable

Relies on phishable factors like SMS, OTP, or push approvals.

Passwordless  
operation

100% Passwordless

Passwords are fully eliminated across devices and operating systems.

Relies on passwords

Passwords are required for setup or fallback authentication.

Device trust
validation

User and device

Authenticates both user identity and device posture (e.g., OS version, encryption, firewall).

Users only

Focuses on user identity only; device trust is ignored.

Continuous authentication

Always-on

Monitors user and device compliance after login; revokes access if the user or device drifts out of policy.

Static

Performs static checks at login — no reevaluation post-authentication.

Device posture assurance

Continuous

Continuously enforces fine-grained policies across managed and unmanaged devices.

Static

Provides no visibility into device security posture.

Security stack  
integration

Fully integrated

Integrates natively with CrowdStrike, Intune, Jamf, Okta, SentinelOne, and others to enforce conditional access.

Limited

Limited or surface-level integrations, often lacking enforcement.

Security telemetry

Enhanced

Exports cryptographically linked user-device logs to SIEMs (JSON/syslog) for forensic investigation.

Siloed

Siloed logging; minimal context for incident response.

Compliance &  
policy enforcement

Easy

Built-in controls enforce Zero Trust and compliance frameworks (e.g., NIST 800-207) by design.

Complicated

Admins must manually configure controls; inconsistent and hard to scale.

Zero trust readiness

Compliant

Designed from the ground up to enforce Zero Trust — no implicit trust, continuous validation of users and devices.

Immature

Still perimeter-based; lacks continuous trust evaluation.

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Talk to an expert and discover why customers of all sizes across industries choose Beyond Identity.

Unrivaled identity security that doesn’t compromise on performance.
Faster threat-blocking at greater scale and with higher accuracy than humanly possible.
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