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Another day, another breach, and another round of advice by “security experts” and government spokespeople about how to make passwords safe. Let’s just cut to the chase. There’s no way to make passwords safe. Full stop.

Going digital with immunity passports could speed rollout and allow for better warnings of potential hot spots. But security and privacy issues remain.

Jasson Casey, CEO of Beyond Identity, suggests passkeys will likely develop into a optional factor in their current public key infrastructure (PKI) or credential-based system.

While multi-factor authentication (MFA) is considered good security, the dependence of organisations on traditional MFA puts them at risk.

Das Leben mit Passwörtern: 60 Prozent der Befragten der Beyond-Identity-Studie finden es frustrierend, sich mehrere merken zu müssen. Passwörter bergen mit die meisten Sicherheitsschwachstellen. Dennoch bleiben sie auch bei Fachleuten beliebt.

Cloudflare responded to their incident by introducing a HAR sanitizer that will strip out these session elements that can potentially authenticate an attacker; Beyond Identity has since created a similar tool meant specifically for Okta customers.

Beyond Identity, a New York-based startup developing passwordless identity management solutions, raised $75 million in venture capital.

Living with passwords: 60 percent of respondents to Beyond Identity's recent study find it frustrating having to remember multiple ones. Despite their security vulnerabilities, they remain popular with professionals.