Passkeys and Cybersecurity Awareness: A New Era of Business Security

This year, Cybersecurity Awareness Month is themed “Secure Our World,” a stark reminder that simple measures can protect businesses from online threats. The week emphasizes four key strategies: using strong passwords and password managers, turning on multifactor authentication (MFA), recognizing and reporting phishing, and updating software.

While this message is accurate, and all these elements are a move towards more robust authentication, there’s an even better way than managing solid and unique passwords – adopting passkeys.

For decades, passwords have been the cornerstone of securing computer systems and applications, but they’ve outlived their utility. Many data breaches happen due to weak or reused passwords, phishing attacks, and human error, and as cyber threats evolve, passwords become more error-prone, burdensome, and outdated.

Passkeys, on the other hand, are a more secure alternative built on the FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance’s standard, which hopes to eliminate passwords ...