Passwords, multi-factor authentication, knowledge-based questions/answers, and hard tokens are based on technologies that are now 20 years old. With organizations losing the battle against cyber attacks, it’s clearly time to move beyond these legacy technologies and adopt a modern approach in which awareness and flexibility are king. Authentication must adapt based on the level of risk, so that it can deliver strong security yet be invisible to users most of the time.
Achieving that balance of strong security and appropriate user friction is the basis for modern authentication. This session will explore what modern authentication is and why using it across all users, devices, and services is vital to turning a losing battle into a winning strategy to stop cyber attacks.