With strong support from Google, Microsoft and other vendors, WebAuthN is poised to become a true standard for passwordless authentication over the web. For decades we’ve been trying to replace the ...

We wouldn’t consider Windows authentication as a feasible strategy as you cannot expose your service over the Internet if you leverage Windows authentication. Forms authentication uses the ASP.Net ...

The average person juggles 100 different passwords, according to security firm NordPass. Consider that for a moment: The login information your employees or your customers use is just one set of many ...

I am often asked about Machine Authentications, how they differ from User Authentications, and how to authenticate both identities togethers. That quote is something that I am hearing all the time ...

Take advantage of improved identity management in ASP.NET Core to implement identity-based authentication for minimal APIs quickly, easily, and with less code. Minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core allow us to ...

Authenticating users who log onto your network by account name and password only is the simplest and cheapest (and thus still the most popular) means of authentication. However, companies are ...

Today’s credential-based attacks are much more sophisticated. Whether it’s advanced phishing techniques, credential stuffing, or even credentials compromised through social engineering or breaches of ...

Wired writer Mat Honan fell victim to a brutal hack over the weekend. Through misplaced ingenuity and a smidgen of social engineering, hackers gained access to his iCloud account and wiped his iPhone, ...