Is this the End for Passwords?
“While [passkeys are] a big step forward, we know that new technologies take time to catch on,” Google admits. “So passwords may be around for a little while.”
However, options like passkeys are certainly going to give them a run for their money sooner rather than later.
“Passkeys will replace passwords,” reads a recent post by Eben Carle on Google’s “The Keyword”. “It’s even broader than that. I’d say our vision for passkeys is to not only get rid of passwords but also eliminate all the Band-Aids the industry has designed to make up for the fact that passwords are so vulnerable.”
In 2023, only sufficiently long, complex, and unique passwords are considered secure – and even then, they can still be extracted during a data breach.
It will take hackers just seconds to crack a password that doesn’t satisfy these crucial conditions, which is why it’s also important to have multi-factor authentication activated wherever you can.
The best password managers that deploy zero-trust infrastructures are, of course, still more secure than simply re-using a password across multiple accounts. However, recent high-profile cyberattacks that have hit LastPass have called the tech’s security credentials into question.
For Google, password managers are just another “Band-Aid” staving off the inevitable. Passwords becoming a thing of the past isn’t a matter of if – it’s a matter of when.
