What’s your password?
The question makes most of us cringe because we all have a gazillion passwords for banking, shopping and everything else we do online.
But with passkeys, there’s nothing to remember or type in. Touching our finger or showing our face to a device for authentication is so much easier.
And it is safer, too, says Tal Zamir, CTO of Tel Aviv-based Perception Point, whose software detects, investigates and remediates any kind of hack attack across a company’s email, web browsers and cloud collaboration channels.
“Google’s recent decision to phase out passwords and replace them with passkeys is an important and necessary step in the right direction,” Zamir tells ISRAEL21c.
“The move is in response to the growing sophistication of phishing and credential theft attacks, which are becoming increasingly common in today’s digital landscape,” he explains.
“By requiring a physical passkey, Google hopes to make it much harder for attackers to steal user sessions, even if they have managed to steal passwords and second-factor authentication codes.”
But, though passkeys might be easier and safer than passwords, they are not the answer to all our problems, says Zamir.
Keep reading at israel21c.org.
Perception Point CTO Tal Zamir is a Technion alumnus.
