Why you should go Passwordless

I wanted to share my experience, because like many others, I feel like I was originally mislead as to what "going passwordless" meant.

I definitely thought that having a password + MFA would be the most secure way to secure a lot of my accounts. However, I was still getting people attempting to brute-force logins to some of my accounts from all over the globe, so I decided to read Microsoft's article on going passwordless and how it's actually *MORE* secure for your account(s).

The thing about removing your password is it removes a lot of the potential for human error in situations like phishing, or where your computer might have a virus or keylogger.
By going passwordless, every time you sign in you are required to pick up a different device and approve the login in some way. This means that people can't keep trying to enter your password (even if they know it) and then finding ways around the MFA.
Basically, if they don't have access to your MFA then they can't even attempt a login.

I'd recommend everyone looks into the future of securing accounts, which is going passwordless & employing passkeys over passwords.

Stay safe out there y'all!

 

Thank you for sharing

 

I second this! I don't know any sites other than Microsoft that are passwordless atm but I love it. You will need approval from the Microsoft authenticator app on my phone along with me selecting the correct number on the app for you to get in.

 

i triple this, however it gives me a task and i hate doing stuff, i use keypass but i still dunno tf passwordless means and now i will need to look it up

 

It's great until it isn't. I've lost my phone before and had to jump through a million hoops to get access to all my accounts because I tried going passwordless. This can be mitigated if you write down all your codes, but unfortunately I also misplaced that document

If you're storing the access codes somewhere like your PC, you're one virus away from losing literally everything

Great idea in theory, very impractical and inconvenient if anything goes wrong.