4 digital identity vendors talk up their passkey efforts

It is getting harder to avoid knowledge about passkeys. This week alone, four vendors including Meta announced passkey capabilities in their products.

Biometrics-backed passkeys – a nascent security movement -- can make passwords obsolete, taking some portion of phishing attacks with them. They are being integrated with major operating systems including ChromeOS, Android, iOS, macOS and Windows.

Google product managers said in a post that the company is starting an open beta test of passkeys involving 9 million organizations. Those …

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