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Busting Passwordless Myths

Busting Passwordless Myths

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ADMIN'S GUIDE TO PASSWORDLESS Busting Passwordless MythsPasswordless is Less Secure than MFA 4 PINs Are Just Passwords 6 Passwords Are Safer Than Biometrics 8 Biometrics Are Secret 10 Passwordless is Vulnerable to Phishing 12 Table of Contents ADMIN'S GUIDE TO PASSWORDLESS Busting Passwordless Myths © 2022 Cisco Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.5 4 MYTH 1 Passwordless is Less Secure than Multi-Factor Authentication If you go by just the name, “Passwordless” could refer to any login experience that doesn’t require a password. An absurd example would be one that simply logs you in using a username, and nothing else. In considering a passwordless solution, we want to raise the security bar, not lower it. Part of ensuring that passwordless is just as secure as

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