For most of our online lives, our accounts are protected by a username and password. These protect the data stored in our accounts, including financial, personal and pretty much anything we value both digitally and physically.

As there are many ways to achieve a goal, so too we’ve discovered over the years that cybercriminals are more than happy to expend the effort to hack into our accounts – everything from brute force attacks to outright stealing our passwords through social engineering techniques.

Can we go passwordless? The quest for a passwordless authentication solution is forecast to reach US$53.64 billion by 2030. To dispel the myth and mystery around password or passwordless authentication, we are joined by Geoff Schomburgk, vice president for APJ at Yubico.

1.       Before we dive into our topic, perhaps you tell our audience what Yubico is all about?

2.       Please describe the passwordless security landscape in 2022? [FIDO 2]

3.       What is driving interest around passwordless security? [80% of breach is credential theft, 100 online accounts]

4.       How do you apply passwordless security efforts onto the zero-trust initiative?

5.       Is passwordless security a long way off from becoming mainstream? [passkey]

6.       What needs to happen for passwordless security to become part of everyday computing needs?

7.       For the CIO/CISO in terms of reframing their security strategy to incorporate passwordless security?