The password-less future

Microsoft's recently announcement that users can delete passwords and adopt a password-less environment using alternative authentication such as an authenticator app. Does this signal the beginning of the end for password based authentication. Keir Humble, an ESET sales engineer, joins Speakeasy's host, Tony Anscombe, to discuss what this means for users and whether the proposed new password-less world is more or less secure. 

Episode links:

https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2021/09/15/the-passwordless-future-is-here-for-your-microsoft-account/

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