ABSTRACT

This chapter will review how the Zero Trust Framework and Privileged Access Management will come together to create the “Passwordless Society”.

As it was alluded to in great detail throughout this book, one of the primary goals of both the Zero Trust Framework and Privileged Access is to not only enforce Multifactor Authentication (MFA) but also, as much as possible, try to get rid of the usage of passwords altogether. As we all know, passwords can be extremely pesky, especially if you have to abide by company policy to create long and complex passwords.

But passwords have been around for quite some time and the unfortunate part about this is that they will continue to be so for a long time to come. This is even despite the fact that there are a number of other viable solutions that are available, such as the use of Biometric technologies as reviewed earlier in this book. Some of the most robust modalities that one can use in this regard are Fingerprint Recognition, Facial Recognition, and Iris Recognition. There are other Biometric-based modalities that a business can use, but they don’t have a wide-reaching market, at least as of yet.

Finally the key considerations and a plan of action for deploying a “Passwordless Society” are also reviewed.