The era of passwords is coming to an end
Discussions about passkeys replacing passwords as the go-to sign-in method have rapidly accelerated. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has acted as the catalyst for this transition, describing the shift as "overhauling decades of security practice". Finally, the industry has reached a collective point of recognition: traditional, static passwords are a weak defense against modern, automated threats.
Alex Laurieis GTM CTO at Ping Identity.
AI has turned cybercrime into a highly efficient, industrial-scale enterprise. With researchers uncovering agentic ransomware attacks, we are fast approaching a reality that outpaces traditional human-centric defenses. Cybercriminals routinely deploy industrial-scale AI tooling to orchestrate and deploy vast credential-stuffing attacks and hyper-realistic phishing campaigns at machine speed and scale.
For organizations, the adoption of passkeys and other passwordless verification methods is dependent on the maturity of existing identity and access management (IAM) systems. Of the businesses with less mature, or no IAM strategy in place,...
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