Understanding authentication, MFA, and going passwordless

In this section, we will review authentication as you are familiar with it today. We will also look at MFA and its importance in today's technical world. We will finish with a review of what we can expect the next generation of authentication to look like with no more passwords. As already stated, a compromise of credentials is one of the most common methods of a breach today. Our current authentication models are outdated and need updating. The traditional method of entering a username and password is simply not acceptable and you need to make changes to improve. If you don't have a strategy in place to improve your authentication posture, add it to your top three security priorities. We need to assume that our account information and passwords have already been breached. If they haven't, it's only a matter of time before they are!

Looking at a traditional on-premises deployment, authentication methods...