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Microsoft Biometrics News
Facebook and its 3 billion users get passkeys, Microsoft deleting passwords
Facebook is introducing passkeys as the social media platform jumps on the passkeys wagon. While Facebook might have fallen out…
| May 5, 2025 | Microsoft is seeing 1M passkey registrations dailyLast week, global companies marked the inaugural World Passkey Day, which replaced World Password Day to highlight safe authentication through… |
| Apr 23, 2025 | Microsoft introduces new Entra ID feature requiring reauthentication every timeMicrosoft has introduced a new feature for Entra ID that allows administrators to require a fresh user authentication to complete specific… |
| Apr 16, 2025 | Carnegie panel spotlights customization, private sector role in DPI developmentA handful of governments have led the charge to define and popularize the concept of Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI), but… |
| Apr 16, 2025 | Microsoft signs up Australian employee screener for biometric liveness detectionMicrosoft face biometrics and liveness detection have been integrated for facial authentication by employee identity verification provider WorkPro. The U.S…. |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Microsoft’s passkeys shift steers over 1B users towards biometricsMicrosoft is rolling out a new sign-in experience — and considering the vast number of Windows users around the world… |
| Mar 11, 2025 | Passkeys see continued pickup by major tech names including Microsoft, AmazonThe long, slow death of the password continues, as major firms standardize stronger authentication measures to become more cyber-resilient and… |
| Feb 28, 2025 | The race for PKC is on with quantum chip launches by AWS, MicrosoftThe topic of protecting sensitive data from quantum systems has grown dramatically in prominence in the digital identity community over… |
| Feb 6, 2025 | Microsoft tweaks security across platforms with MFA, sign-in changeMicrosoft has announced a patch for the critical authentication bypass by spoofing flaw in its Azure AI Face service. MSSP… |
| Jan 7, 2025 | Microsoft releases federated identity credentials for MS EntraMicrosoft wants users of Microsoft Entra to be able to log in to accounts across services without resending secure login… |
| Dec 16, 2024 | Passkeys build momentum, enabling access to 15 billion online accountsPasskeys are a biometric security trend to watch in 2025. The FIDO Alliance themed its 11th annual FIDO Tokyo Seminar… |
| Dec 10, 2024 | iProov biometrics and liveness detection to secure workforce IDs on Microsoft EntraEnterprise workers using Microsoft Entra ID can now use iProov biometrics and liveness detection to log into company systems through… |
| Nov 5, 2024 | Passkey adoption high among young users tired of endless GyF5*$%uu27While passwords may hang on until the last possible asterisk, a new study from the FIDO Alliance tells a truth… |
| Oct 15, 2024 | How to get passkeys working for a billion Microsoft users and beyondThe FIDO Alliance has kicked off the Authenticate 2024 conference with a campaign urging people to “free yourself with passkeys,”… |
| Oct 9, 2024 | Deepfake threat still stirring concern about election integrityThe specter of deepfakes continues to hover over the various elections of 2024, and even if little actual deepfake-driven disruption… |
| Sep 23, 2024 | Microsoft selects Keyless biometric authentication for startup programMicrosoft has selected Keyless to participate in its Startups Pegasus Program, which will provide valuable resources, tools, and expert guidance… |
| Aug 15, 2024 | Microsoft makes MFA mandatory for Azure sign-insIn response to the escalating threat of cyberattacks, Microsoft has made multi-factor authentication (MFA) mandatory for Azure sign-ins. Through its… |
| Jul 30, 2024 | Microsoft calls for AI deepfake fraud to be made illegal as fake Harris ad circulatesIt took less than ten days after Joe Biden stepped away from the U.S. presidential election for a deepfake of… |
| Jul 5, 2024 | Scotland biometrics commish wants ICO to look into cops use of cloudAfter Microsoft revealed that it could not guarantee the sovereignty of UK policing data hosted on its cloud servers, the… |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Nuance, Au10tix security incidents expose client customer dataU.S. healthcare provider Geisinger Health has revealed that a former employee of Nuance Communications Inc. accessed patient data without authorization…. |
Microsoft Industry Insights
Entra Verified ID introduces DIDs and VCs to the Microsoft ecosystem
Microsoft’s new product, Entra Verified ID, introduces Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs) to the Microsoft ecosystem. DIDs are…
| Microsoft aims to kill the password | |
| Intel drops facial recognition from TV set-top box, and why cable needs to ‘get the net’ |
Brand Focus: Microsoft
Identification-as-a-service provides benefits, says MorphoTrak executive
Cloud computing provides many benefits including ease of use, time savings, security, convenience, versatility, and scalability. For these reasons, cloud…
