Goodbye Passwords (Finally!) …. Here’s To The Future With Passkeys and Privacy Pass
What’s still the most popular attack vector for cyber attacks? … it’s spear phishing, and normally involves the capture of a user’s password. Passwords are now just too much of a threat to our digital world, along with them not scaling to mobile devices.
For Cybersecurity professionals this has been a big week, and the start of building a new digital world. At Apple’s developer conference, there were no new iPads, or major changes to their hardware, but there were significant changes to the way that the Apple ecosystem will work.
As a Mac user, I think the ecosystem for trust and security has always been much better than Microsft Windows and Andriod. And the new changes to iOS 16 and macOS Ventura, will it truly start to rid our digital world of passwords and CAPTCHA, and move toward toward multi-factor authentication methods (MFA). To me, to use a PIN code and my fingerprint is almost infinitely better than a password — both from a security and a useability point of view.
Privacy Pass and Passkey
The two main announcements for cybersecurity professions were Privacy Pass (a way of authenticating users, devices and applications without the usage of CAPTCHA) and Passkeys (a way to integrate Multifactor…
