Rollout Passwordless in Weeks
Ravikumar Kanniappan
Director of Engineering | Cloud Security, Identity and Access Management
Time to get rid of mid-1960 concept called passwords to access critical resources. According to Wired : "It probably arrived at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the mid-1960s, when researchers at the university built a massive time-sharing computer called CTSS. The punchline is that even then, passwords didn't protect users as well as they could have. Technology changes. But, then again, it doesn't."
Benefits of Passwordless:
Improve user experience
Frictionless onboarding
Eliminate password fatigue
Reduce IT Support and Cost
Stronger Security posture
81% of breaches involved stolen or weak passwords, according to Verizon 2020 Data breach investigations report.
OKTA supports various methods to enable passwordless authentication depicted below
The below diagram explains detailed steps of highly used OKTA Passwordless options/factors
Time to rollout Passwordless: 4 to 6 weeks
High-Level Timeline & Key activities
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Senior Cloud Security Consultant
2 年Ravi, thanks much for the insights. I have a few questions: 1) How easy or difficult it is for web apps to transform to be able to support this model? 2) What changes are required for home grown and third party apps to go completely password less? 3) Is it possible to make it a 100% migration across the estate, or in all practicality would there be any gaps left once we embark on such an initiative?