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Passwordless React UI Components: Add Passkeys to Your Client-Side App

Add authentication flows into your react app or website using Authsignal’s UI components with the React SDK. Fast-track passkeys and MFA implementation for your client-side app.

UI Components

React

Passkeys

Synced vs Device-Bound Passkeys: How User Convenience and Authentication Experiences Vary.

Not all passkeys are the same. Synced and device-bound passkeys offer distinct benefits and trade-offs in security, access, and user experience. This guide covers the differences and key considerations for passkey recovery.

Passkeys

Synced passkeys

Device-bound passkeys

Passkey recovery

NIST's September 2024 Update to Password Guidelines: Improved User Experience.

Rather than focusing on complexity, the new guidelines emphasize usability, password length, and Password Blocklists, aiming to balance improved security and user-friendly practices.

NIST

Are Face ID and Passkeys the Same? Exploring Key Differences.

The short answer is no. Face ID and passkeys are not the same, though they can complement each other in a seamless authentication experience. Here’s a breakdown:

Passkeys

Biometric authentication

Passwordless authentication

Passkeys For The Airline Industry: How a world-leading airline deployed passkeys to uplift customer security and optimize user experience with Authsignal.

A world-leading airline partners with Authsignal to strengthen customer security through passkey implementation. Hear about the journey, challenges, and impact on digital interactions and data protection.

Airlines

Passkeys

Passwordless authentication

Call center authentication

myGov Passkeys Implementation: Passkeys and MFA for Australia Government Services.

Explore myGov's passkey implementation, enhancing Australia's government digital security amid rising cybercrime. Learn about best practices for implementing passkeys.

FIDO2

Implementation

Passkeys Implementation Analysis

The Essential Eight

WhatsApp for 2FA and MFA: Enhancing Customer Experience and Reducing Costs with WhatsApp OTP.

High SMS costs in Asia-Pacific and the prevalence of WhatsApp are driving enterprises to adopt WhatsApp OTPs for user verification, offering a cost-effective and reliable solution.

Whatsapp OTP

SMS one-time-password

Integration

Revolut's Passkey Implementation: Benefits, Challenges & Technical Aspect.

Explore how Revolut enhances security and user experience with passkeys, leading the way in online banking innovation and fintech security.

Passkeys Implementation Analysis

Implementation

PSD2

FIDO2

What does "FSC Standard No. 29" mean for Australian Superannuation Funds? - Protecting customers through Multi-factor Authentication (MFA).

Learn how FSC Standard No. 29 enhances fraud prevention for Australian superannuation funds with MFA. Discover how Authsignal helps ensure compliance and secure customer assets.

Compliance

Financial services

Multi-factor authentication

The Essential Eight

Mastercard Passkeys: A Secure and Seamless Future for Payments.

This blog explores Mastercard's innovative approach to passkeys and its implications for the future of payment security.

Implementation

Passkeys Implementation Analysis

FIDO2

Unlock Passwordless for AWS Cognito.

Authsignal's flexible integration model allows you to easily switch from using AWS Cognito's hosted UI to using Lambda triggers inorder to implement Passwordless.

Cognito

AWS

Flexible multi-factor authentication

Implementation

Best Practices for Call Center Authentication & Fraud Prevention - Authsignal

Learn call center authentication best practices, including passive methods like FIDO2 passkeys and biometrics, to enhance security and prevent fraud.

Call center authentication

FIDO2

Account takeover

Deep fakes