10 passkey survival tips: Prepare for your passwordless future now

emretopdemir/Getty Images Sooner or later, it's coming: You'll be logging into one of your favorite websites or applications, and you'll find no option to supply a user ID and password. There won't even be a password field. (The jury is still out on the user ID field.) You'll simply choose from a personalized dropdown list of credentials valid for that site or app and, if all goes well, you'll be granted access. Today, this auto-magical, passwordless process is hardly bulletproof. But, our industry sources assure us, it will get better. So, what preparations do you need to make now for this brave new world of passkeys? Quite a few, actually. How did we get here? Apple, Google, Microsoft, and other members of the FIDO Alliance – the consortium developing and promoting the passkey standard – are leading this titanic shift in how we authenticate with sites and apps. The tech industry has been quietly making adjustments to operating systems and web browsers to enable this highly automa ... Read full article.