
Hence, it is best to eliminate passwords and replace them with the stronger passwordless authentication method.

Bad actors use social engineering, phishing, and spray attacks to compromise passwords. Bret Arsenault, our Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) here at Microsoft, likes to say, "Hackers don't break in, they log in."" Passwords are a primary attack vector across enterprise and consumer accounts.

It is one of the oldest security mechanisms in the world of the internet. Why passwordless and Windows Hello for Business?Ī password is a knowledge-based secret used to verify the identity of a user. With this new model, we've made Windows Hello for Business much easier to deploy than the existing key trust and certificate trust deployment models by removing the need for maintaining complicated public key infrastructure (PKI) and Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Connect synchronization wait times. We are excited to announce the general availability of hybrid cloud Kerberos trust, a new Windows Hello for Business deployment model that enables a passwordless sign-in experience.
