Microsoft Entra makes passwordless registration easier, but what does this mean for Zero Trust?
Microsoft Entra makes passwordless registration easier, but what does this mean for Zero Trust? Let's discuss.. Microsoft recently published a message in the message center that covers details on Windows Hello for Business and macOS Platform SSO supporting standalone MFA factors. It is well established that Passwordless authentication is becoming the default approach for modern identity security. Windows Hello for Business (WHfB), passkeys, FIDO2 and macOS Platform SSO (PSSO) all provide stronger authentication while reducing our dependency on passwords. And with this new change, Microsoft has now made passwordless registration in Entra ID easier, including bringing register security information further into the conditional access model. However, this does raise an interesting question: If passwordless authentication is strong enough to authenticate the user, do we still need MFA? In my personal opinion, it is still necessary, but not necessarily in the way we traditionally ...