On June 16, Auth0 began providing a passwordless authentication function using webAuthn using biological information such as face recognition and fingerprint.
In recent years, there are a huge number of applications and systems, and access points have never been, and attacks on companies and users are increasing.However, according to Auth0, users tend to reuse the same password for different services, and relying only on passwords as a authentication means is that there is a problem in terms of security, user usability and cost.According to Verizon's 2021 data infringement survey, 84 % of the data leakage was due to the broken password.
Auth0 can minimize the above problems by using passwordless authentication, improve security and trust in applications, devices, service providers, speed up and smoothly log in end users, and facilitate password management support.It is said that cost reduction can be achieved by unnecessary.
In the passwordless authentication function provided by Auth0, the user can be certified on WebAuthn as the first stage authentication.This authentication method is published on the W3C as the official web standard for passwordless authentication and adopted in FIDO.You can log in to devices and various services with a biological authentication information such as face recognition like FaceID, mobile terminal and fingerprint scan of laptop PC, so you do not need to enter user names and passwords, so you use your password.The security is unnecessary for security.
