Your attempts to modernize your organization should be based on positive outcomes for your end-users, not a negative driver. You should only take action if you want to genuinely progress the security of your environment and offer a faster end-user authentication experience compared to using passwords. I’m not going to cover those numbers and attempt to fear-based sell you to take action within your organization. Not even the stolen intellectual property, damage to systems, or bad press….just the amount of IT overhead involved is significant managing this day-to-day, much less post-security incident. In yesterday’s Part 1 of this article series, I covered the theory and history around the path to password-less authentication and today in Part 2 I will cover these 3 solutions in more technical depth as well as share some of my real-world experiences with them.ĭeploying these solutions is not a suggestion anymore, it’s a requirement for you to run your business successfully at a time when user credentials are attacked and stolen leading to massive security breaches at an unprecedented level year after year causing enterprises millions of dollars. If your environment is a Microsoft Active Directory-based environment and leverages Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD or AAD for short) to extend your deployment as your primary cloud-based identity provider (IdP), then you must plan to deploy the 3 modern password-less access management solutions that work with Azure AD in order to take full advantage of the identity platform.

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