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The Advantages of Passkeys

Passkeys can be a fingerprint, face scan, or a PIN, and Microsoft argues that they are far more effective against hacking than passwords. Here is where you can create your passkeys.

There are notable advantages for passkeys, not least for those of us who regularly forget our passwords. Passkeys like fingerprints or faces can’t be lost, after all. They are also a better defense against phishing attacks.

However, there can be issues with passkeys because of cross platform compatibility, functionality with older devices, and their need for certain hardware security modules.

For the moment though, Microsoft users working on public machines just need to remind themselves to log out and perhaps think about setting up their passkeys once they have this figured out.