Security News > 2023 > July > Hardware-bound passkeys are still ultimate in security: Yubico VP

Derek Hanson, Yubico's VP of standards and alliances and an industry expert on passkeys, discusses why device-bound-to-shareable passkeys are critical.

Derek Hanson, an expert on hardware-bound and syncable passkeys, works very closely with the FIDO Alliance and recently spoke on the topic of passkeys at the 2023 RSA Conference.

Hanson spoke with TechRepublic's Karl Greenberg about the range of passkey implementations, from a hardware-bound passkey, such as those stored on a YubiKey, where the passkey is tied to a device and doesn't lock a user, to shareable keys managed by a vendor.

Figure A. Karl Greenberg: With shareable passkeys that are software, not hardware-bound, what are the use cases for a physical system like YubiKey, where the passkey cannot leave the device?

What we're talking about with passkeys - and what is being really promoted right now around this passwordless authentication solution - is innovating how passkeys work so that the key material that was living on a YubiKey can now be synchronized and managed by software.

Derek Hanson: We are seeing a lot of awareness about passkeys.

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