Cyber criminals are daily finding new and inventive ways to breach our online defences, to hack our websites, to defraud us (and our customers, suppliers, employees and families), and to generally force us to spend more and more valuable resources on protecting ourselves. The question is, are passwords still the answer? We start off with some concerning stats in this regard and a discussion on how having to constantly manage passwords is impacting on both our businesses and the global economy. Which brings us to the million dollar question: “Could passwordless authentication be the way to go?”

No one knows for certain just how serious the eventual economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic will be, but at the least businesses will face their most challenging times since 2008. For the moment you will want to concentrate on business survival.