Security News > 2022 > August > Overcoming the roadblocks to passwordless authentication

There are a variety of roadblocks associated with moving to passwordless authentication.

Further, the app owners will often resist changing them to support passwordless flows.

What happens if you want to support more than one solution? Or use your passwordless solution as both a primary identity and authentication provider and a step-up authentication provider? Or you want to layer in behavioral analytics?

An identity orchestration layer makes it possible to modernize older apps without rewriting them so they can work with new identity protocols and support passwordless authentication.

For app owners, identity orchestration provides several tangible benefits including the ability for an app to consume any identity service, be protected with passwordless authentication, and be removed from the compliance exception list - all without making any code changes.

Identity orchestration can make a passwordless authentication rollout more palatable for both end users and app owners by minimizing disruption to the user experience and eliminating changes to apps.

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