💰 The Password Isn’t Dead Yet. You Need a Hardware Key

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That's because, as part of Cloudflare's security controls, every employee must use a physical security key to prove their identity while logging into all applications.And two weeks ago, the Vivaldi browser announced hardware key support for Android.You likely have dozens or even hundreds of digital accounts, and even if they all supported hardware tokens it would be difficult to manage physical keys for all of them.“FIDO has been positioning passkeys somewhere between passwords and hardware-based FIDO authenticators, and I think that’s a fair characterization,” says Jim Fenton, an independent identity privacy and security consultant.And more security-focused consumers should also have the option to use hardware-based authenticators, particularly if their data has previously been breached, if they have a high net worth, or if they are just concerned about security.”While it may feel daunting at first to add one more best practice to your digital security to-do list, hardware tokens are actually easy to set up."

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