At a recent Business Rangitikei event which we hosted, a similar question to this was asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The answer is pretty much: \u201cYes!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, that is very simplistic and is not the whole answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Passwords often pose challenges. They are a pain to try to recall (especially if they haven\u2019t been used in a while); some users may use the same passwords multiple times; resetting them can prove troublesome; and even with vigilance, they remain vulnerable to cyber-attacks and are a cyber-attacker\u2019s \u201cbest friend\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Passwords used to be fine for protecting data and access to systems and remain extensively utilised across businesses and organisations of all sizes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2004, Bill Gates (Microsoft Founder and former Microsoft CEO) while speaking at an I.T. security conference noted that \u201cpasswords just don\u2019t meet the challenge for anything you really want to secure\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 20 Years later we are still using passwords, they won\u2019t be going away any time soon. In fact, we are using more and more of them in our daily lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are, though, technologies that are now available to remove passwords as a way of accessing data and systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Two of these technologies are Passkeys and SSO (Single Sign-On).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not all systems support these technologies yet, but given time, more and more systems will support these technologies or use new technologies as they are invented, developed and implemented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In our next Blog Article, we will cover these two technologies in more detail, how they operate and how they can help to secure your personal, business or organisation\u2019s data, stand by for Part 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you\u2019d like advice on ensuring your passwords are secure, please don\u2019t hesitate to get in touch with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At a recent Business Rangitikei event which we hosted, a similar question to this was asked. The answer is pretty much: \u201cYes!\u201d However, that is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[90,28,89,91],"tags":[92,30,94,93],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-passkeys","category-password-managers","category-passwords","category-single-sign-on-sso","tag-passkeys","tag-passwordmanagers","tag-singlesignon","tag-sso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/securesphere.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/securesphere.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/securesphere.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securesphere.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securesphere.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/securesphere.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/securesphere.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/securesphere.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securesphere.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securesphere.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}