Security News > 2021 > September > 10,000 employees at Stanley Black & Decker go passwordless
Stanley Black & Decker has been working with TrueU since 2018, and the passwordless protection they offered "Sounded too good to be true," said Rhonda Gass, VP and chief information officer.
Passwordless security is on the rise-check out our previous reporting on other companies offering tools to move us toward a passwordless future-and will likely include a mix of multifactor authentication like biometric verification, and passive signals that may ask a user for additional verification.
While a lot of the vendors out there focus on "Logical use cases," such as logging into Windows or cloud-based environments, Mahdi said, Stanley Black & Decker is doing something "Unique" by offering the "Potential to converge physical and logical access"-meaning a device could use facial recognition or a fingerprint to double-check the identity of the user, in case something appears fishy.
Stanley Black & Decker's move to passwordless is "Another strong data point that, 'hey, organizations are sick and tired of this," Mahdi said.
The move is part of Stanley Black & Decker's "Defense-in-depth approach," Gass said.
Previously employees at Stanley Black & Decker were saddled with long, complex passwords, which needed to be changed frequently.