Security News > 2020 > May > World Password Day: We're moving toward a passwordless infrastructure
As we celebrate World Password Day, companies of all sizes are looking to password alternatives including YubiKeys, Google Titan keys, and biometrics.
Organizations have been asking us and saying, "Hey Gartner, are there viable options for passwordless authentication?" And in fact, so much so that it was one of our top security trends last year, in saying that, yes, it wasn't a trend for 2019, but it was something that we saw signals in the market where organizations wanted to move away from passwords and to move more toward a world of passwordless techniques.
David Mahdi: Of course there's password complexity, right? There's this notion that the longer the password is and the more characters we have, yes, we know against things like brute force attacks and dictionary attacks that can really thwart some of those attacks in many ways.
Frankly, the sticky note password thing is a coping mechanism, really.
That's one method, that I think a lot of organizations had the traditional RSA tokens many years ago or those one-time passwords, and many folks thought tokens were going away.