Our founder Simon Moffatt will be moderating a panel at the Future Identity Festival in London taking place on November 14-15th.
Authentication is the pinch point for all B2E and B2C application, service and website interactions - allowing organisations to deliver secure experiences. However it has its challenges - requiring broad use coverage and inclusivity, privacy by design, adaptive threat protection and future proofing.
Passwordless authentication is often described as improving both the usability and security aspects of both the employee and customer identity journeys. Many approaches to passwordless have emerged over the last 5 years - including hardware, software, biometric and standards based initiatives.
In November 2021, The Cyber Hut released a 61 page buyer guide for passwordless authentication, describing the vendor capabilities, requirements, integration options, B2E and B2C use cases and planning recommendations for migration.
A brief snapshot of questions to consider, when engaging software based solution providers in this space is described here.
Even as many organisations are moving to a "cloud first" strategy for the consumption of new applications and services, the cloud line is blurred. Not all services can be consumed in a pure cloud setting, and not all "clouds" are the same.
Any analysis in the popularity, options or strategy with respect to IAM deployment should be firmly based against a set of basic definitions.
