Tech companies have been trying to do away with web passwords for years, but now it looks like they've reached a key milestone. The FIDO Alliance and W3C have launched a Web Authentication standard ...

We wouldn’t consider Windows authentication as a feasible strategy as you cannot expose your service over the Internet if you leverage Windows authentication. Forms authentication uses the ASP.Net ...

Google is acting on its promise to banish more passwords. It just released Chrome 67 for the desktop, bringing the Web Authentication standard to what's arguably the most popular browser. As with ...

DataDome Bot Protect supports Web Bot Auth, enabling cryptographic verification of AI agents to eliminate fraud risk while maintaining business continuity.

With strong support from Google, Microsoft and other vendors, WebAuthN is poised to become a true standard for passwordless authentication over the web. For decades we’ve been trying to replace the ...

The SolarWinds security fiasco, which Microsoft president Brad Smith described as “the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen,” may have begun, suggested former SolarWinds CEO ...

Authenticating users who log onto your network by account name and password only is the simplest and cheapest (and thus still the most popular) means of authentication. However, companies are ...

Remember the good old days, when logging into your favorite web service (Geocities, anyone?) was a simple as entering a username and password? Back then, things were simpler and safer. Today, the ante ...

There are many tools for setting up two-factor authentication, a security mechanism that prevents improper access. These four methods are the most compelling. By Brian X. Chen When Facebook revealed ...