Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about contemporary cybersecurity and online privacy issues. Before talking about what authentication is and how it works, ...

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

Authentication has been a part of digital life since MIT set up a password on their shared-access computer in 1961. Today, authentication covers virtually every interaction you can have on the ...

Human relationships rely on trust, which is why the true history of authentication extends back long before the first written documents referencing it. I suspect that as early as humans formed tribes, ...

Of all the things which are annoying about the modern World Wide Web, the need to create and remember countless passwords is on the top of most people’s lists. From dozens of passwords for everything ...

Short, simple, and quite stubborn against hackers, your PIN deserves more respect.

The Director of Identity Security at Microsoft has been warning about the inefficacy of passwords and more recently about standard Multi-Factor Authentication or MFA ...

GateKeeper will showcase its password-free, proximity-based MFA platform for shared manufacturing workstations at the Manufacturing IT & OT Summit USA 2026, enabling sub-second user switching while ...

If your classic Outlook couldn’t authenticate with the server and is continuously asking for a password, read this post. We will show you how to fix Outlook password authentication issues using the ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. I can’t help but think GitHub went a little too far with its removal of password based ...