Microsoft is a board member of the FIDO Alliance, an open industry association launched over a decade ago that promotes passkeys as a standard passwordless sign-in method used by 15 billion user accounts for authentication. Brand new Microsoft accounts will now be 'passwordless by default'," said Joy Chik, Microsoft's President for Identity & Network Access, and Vasu Jakkal, Corporate Vice President for Microsoft Security. Microsoft has announced that all new Microsoft accounts will be "passwordless by default" to secure them against password attacks such as phishing, brute force, and credential stuffing. It also rolled out support for passkey authentication for personal Microsoft accounts a year ago after adding a built-in passkey manager for Windows Hello with the Windows 11 22H2 feature update. The announcement comes after the company started rolling out updated sign-in and sign-up user experience (UX) flows for web and mobile apps in March, optimized for passwordless and passkey-first authentication. More recently, it started testing WebAuthn API updates to add support for using third-party passkey providers for Windows 11 passwordless authentication.
This Cyber News was published on www.bleepingcomputer.com. Publication date: Fri, 02 May 2025 07:25:07 +0000