As much as our digital ecosystem has advanced in recent years, some elements of the security world have been slower to change. For example, a shortage of well-trained cybersecurity professionals has ...

The quest to bury the password continues, as biometrics-adjacent firms respond with integrations, analyses and assessments of the past decade of progress.

Microsoft this week announced a preview of "Authentication Strength," a new control for organizations using the Azure Active Directory Conditional Access service. Authentication Strength lets IT pros ...

This creates what HYPR calls the “Age of Industrialisation” for identity security: the hard, unglamorous work of ...

Microsoft this week announced a few Azure Active Directory improvements. The improvements include a "Converged Authentication Methods" addition for centralizing the management of authentication ...

CISOs looking to beef up their customer-facing authentication procedures to thwart cyberattacks need to walk a fine line. You want the method to provide tight security without being too complicated, ...

Once considered a near iron-clad weapon of defense against cyber criminals, the password has begun to fall from grace. Effective passwords often require human efforts that many users can’t or simply ...

In password-based authentication, end-users confirm their identity using login credentials, commonly a unique username, and a secret password. These credentials allow the system to verify that the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Update, April 29, 2025: This story, originally published April ...

Password retirement is premature. Despite passwordless innovation, passwords remain critical in enterprise identity systems.

Strong authentication remains a cybersecurity priority under the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) cross-agency priority goals that were announced in the 2015 federal budget. In its 2015 budget ...