Ever since “cloud computing” hit the headlines (

), people have been predicting the end of on-premise solutions. After all, why do we need on-premises when we can achieve things like greater cost efficiencies, flexibility and better uptime SLAs in the cloud?

The fact of the matter is - while conceptually, the cloud beats on-premise hands down - reality continues to play out differently. Particularly for enterprise organizations who have complex infrastructures, legacy technologies and thousands of users - staff, business partners and customers - accessing systems. Add to that, for some highly regulated industries (think financial services for example) where regulation is so strict, it makes moving to the cloud a difficult sell.

 So, let’s start unpacking some of those aspects which slow down, or currently prevent organizations from moving to the cloud:

So how can organizations who need to maintain on-premise solutions, but also want to have the option of utilizing the benefits of a cloud solution (at some point), move forward?

Here at Keyless, we’re aware that some of our customers have been experiencing the pains we’ve just been speaking about. And while we can’t solve the entire on-premise-cloud conundrum, we are pleased to say we’re doing our part when it comes to how you can manage digital identity and authentication for your users, business partners and customers: with Keyless On-Premise. It will work just like our existing solutions do - just like an on-premise service. We feel this is an important step, especially for our customers in those highly regulated industries, who can’t quickly or easily move to the cloud. We can offer our customers the ability to quickly adopt and deploy cutting edge technology - without the need to complete a multi-year digital transformation project first. 

If you would like to find out more, please 

Why is On-Premise still here?

There’s been a lot of buzz in the identity and access management market in recent years as a new kid on the block - Passwordless Authentication - has been gaining popularity, if not quite full-scale adoption yet. However, according to Gartner, by 2025, more than 50% of the workforce and more than 20% of customer authentication transactions will be passwordless - up from less than 10% today .

So one way or another, organizations do need to consider passwordless authentication as one of the options for their user login and authentication, regardless of use case.

But.... passwordless just tells you what the authentication method is not. So, what is passwordless?

This blog will give a brief overview on what passwordless is and what organizations can look out for when considering passwordless authentication solutions. First of all, passwordless authentication methods are available in a few wrappers:

For example, a user could be asked to authenticate as part of a multi-factor process, where they are asked to enter a pattern (something they know) and then enter a one-time pin, delivered most often through their phone (something they have). And even if a password is baked into the first step, the addition of a passwordless second authenticator greatly increases security. That said, while security is increased, it is still compromised by the fact that a password is involved.

Furthermore, there is still the matter of user experience (UX), even if the security box is checked. Multiple authentication methods, across different devices, is hardly the frictionless UX organizations hope to offer their customers.

Biometric authentication is also a great passwordless option, and adoption of this is on the rise. This is in part, thanks to Face ID and Touch, who embed biometric authentication into their devices. Additionally, some biometric authentication solutions also lean on devices, by storing biometric data on the device. While this is certainly a great way to get user buy-in, it still presents organizations with some challenges, most notably, in a couple of areas:

However, passwordless biometric authentication is already moving beyond on-device and it’s challenges. Keyless is a next-gen biometric authentication solution that does not rely on a particular device and eliminates the need to process and store biometric data. This enables passwordless authentication for users in a way that exceeds GDPR and is PSD2 ready. With device-agnostic software, organizations have the ability to provide a consistent and intuitive user experience, that is user friendly, private and secure. It works either as a single factor authenticator or as part of a multi-factor authentication experience, integrating with an existing identity provider (IDP).

 Now that we’ve looked at the passwordless authentication methods, what do organizations need to consider for use in their organization, whether for employees or their customers? Here are a few suggestions:

At Keyless, we’re proud to be the first vendor in the world to have certification for both FIDO2 and FIDO biometrics - which means that our passwordless biometric authentication is approved for both employee and customer use cases. Additionally, if you want to read more from Gartner on this subject, we can also recommend Gartner’s paper, Take 3 Steps to Passwordless (in which we’re also cited).

 Finally, if you’d like to find out more about Keyless, please 

So, you want to go passwordless?

Taking Pioneering Biometric Authentication to a New Level

Andrea Carmignani, CEO and Co-Founder, Fabian Eberle, COO and Co-Founder, Paolo Gasti, CTO and Co-Founder. 

At Keyless, our mission is to provide people and organizations with a passwordless future, where the user is the key. We want to do it in a way that lets people log in to any app or service, from any device, easily and safe in the knowledge that they have the privacy they deserve, and for organizations to maintain security and compliance for their systems and users.

Not only have we achieved that, we continuously work to improve how we do that.

By bringing together over 10 years of research from some of the best minds in cryptography and biometrics, the Keyless team has built and patented pioneering biometric authentication technology that meets the compliance requirements of PSD2, has received FIDO® certifications, and helps online businesses more easily meet the requirements of GDPR. We have a product that we are proud of—that our partners and our customers are proud of.

So today, we are excited to announce that we’re taking Keyless to a new level: Keyless will become part of 

, the leader in Digital Trust & Safety. We’ve made this decision because Sift’s mission closely matches ours—to help everyone trust the internet—and together with Sift, we can deliver on our mission to help everyone achieve a passwordless future.

Digital identity sits at the intersection of user experience, security, and privacy, and as organizations face unprecedented phishing attacks, fraud, and account takeovers, it presents one of the biggest challenges right now—particularly in high-profile, consumer-reliant industries, such as financial services and e-commerce. Therefore, the role of authentication is a critical step in addressing these challenges and preventing fraud. The combination of Sift + Keyless delivers end-to-end growth and protection for all online or digital sites, as current and future customers can leverage passwordless biometric authentication along with Sift’s other Digital Trust & Safety solutions to secure and enhance the customer experience, from account creation to payments to managing disputes.

While this is a big step in our journey as a company, at Keyless our focus and commitment will remain on protecting employee and customer credentials. And with the combination of Sift + Keyless, organizations can take a strong, proactive stance against all fraudulent activity, throughout the customer journey—whether it’s at the point of login, sign up with KYC (Know Your Customer) processes, or in-app authentication.

If you would like to know more about the acquisition, check out the press release. And if you would like to know how Sift+Keyless can help your organization, please 

Keyless is joining Sift — The Leader in Digital Trust & Safety

Keyless is Joining Sift—the Leader in Digital Trust & Safety

Introducing the new Webcam Authentication for Windows

When it comes to multi-factor authentication (MFA), it’s now standard practice to enable it through the use of a “companion device” - most of the time, this is your mobile. But if you think about it, what’s the user experience really like?

How many times have you sat down at your desk, ready to start the day, you open your laptop and your login for accessing the company systems kicks in. To authenticate you, a notification is sent to your mobile-only you’ve left your mobile in another room. You get up from your desk, go get your phone and when you get back, the authentication window has timed out and you need to start again. And this is without other hassles, such as a lost or broken mobile.

And another consideration here - did you know that according to this article in 

: “Employees use an average of 191 passwords to enter 154 times in a given month, racking up an estimated 36 minutes of password data entry during that time, according to a report released today.”

That’s a lot of time lost, entering passwords...

Whatever the situation, we believe security, user experience and productivity don’t need to be compromised.

At Keyless we are continually working to enhance the security of organizations through passwordless, biometric authentication. While we offer it through mobile, as a companion device to laptops, we wanted to give even more flexibility for users authenticating via their organization’s existing identity and access management (IAM) solution.

With Webcam Authentication for Windows, you can enrol for passwordless biometric authentication through the camera on your laptop, or you can simply add your laptop as a trusted device in your authenticator app.

By enabling this feature, organizations can:

Giving you authentication choices 

As of today, joint customers can now take advantage of Keyless’s biometric authentication solutions via IBM Security Verify

Keyless is pleased to announce its integration with IBM Security Verify to help drive the adoption of cutting-edge cloud authentication solutions that can help organizations eliminate avoidable cyber threats.  

IBM Security Verify, IBM’s cloud identity and access management solution, was recently named a leader in risk-based authentication, access management and customer identity and access management by multiple analyst firms. With the integration, Keyless wants to help organizations protect against avoidable threats and poor customer experiences caused by legacy authentication technologies that are still dependent on passwords and one-time codes, such as SMS-2FA.

Keyless, which offers solutions for both workforce and consumer authentication, is currently accelerating its goal to becoming a leading partner for cloud identity and access management providers – having already partnered with the likes of Microsoft, OneLogin, Auth0, ForgeRock, and Oracle earlier this year.

By combining advanced facial recognition and device identification technology, Keyless offers organizations a way to seamlessly authenticate users. Its biometric software is built upon novel privacy-first technology to ensure biometric data is never at risk – meaning organizations can embrace user-friendly biometrics while simultaneously enhancing compliance standards.

Keyless Integrates with IBM Security Verify to help organizations reduce reliance on legacy cybersecurity solutions

Keyless is working with Oracle to help organizations fight threats and acclimatize to the new normal, with zero-trust authentication

Keyless is working with Oracle to help organizations innovate quickly and securely when it comes to user identity and authentication. Keyless is part of Oracle for Startups, Oracle’s global program to support entrepreneurs and innovators, and builds its solution on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

When looking to the post-pandemic work environment, 76% of organizations want to cultivate permanent remote-working spaces. Keyless is helping organizations adjust, by providing multi-factor authentication solutions that combine multimodal biometrics and device identification. This enables them to provide frictionless access to company data and systems from anywhere in the world.

Building on the highly secure Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Keyless will provide organizations with a way to fast-track the evolution of their authentication and identity management technologies, by adopting modern, cloud-based solutions that offer enhanced protection outside of the traditional network security perimeters. This migration will help organizations eliminate credential-based threats, enhance employee productivity and mitigate compliance risks in a post-COVID environment.

Keyless’ interoperable solutions leverage privacy-enhancing cryptography to help ensure biometric data and other personally identifiable information is protected from compromise. This enables organizations to embrace cutting-edge biometric solutions and mitigate compliance risks. 

Working with Oracle will help Keyless realize its vision to bring innovative and best-in-class identity solutions to the global market.

Keyless helps enterprises accelerate digital transformation with cloud-based security solutions

Biometric authentication firm, Keyless, partners with Finema to help organizations empower their users to have more control over their digital identities 

Keyless and Finema, a company dedicated to helping organizations construct their digital identity infrastructures by providing self sovereign and decentralized identity solutions, are joining forces to help accelerate adoption of these technologies.

As the concept of the digital economy continues to overtake traditional ways of doing business, privacy is becoming one of the key concerns for consumers. As a result, organizations can no longer focus on just trying to balance user experience and security. If they want to maintain the trust and loyalty of their customers – privacy needs to be high on the agenda.

Finema, the first decentralized digital identity company in Thailand, is among only a few in Asia who have developed proof and verification systems under the paradigm of self-sovereign identity (SSI). It is a world-changing technological concept in which a person is able to have absolute ownership of their digital identity. 

Adoption of blockchain-based services, such as digital wallets, has been painfully slow. Part of the reason is because organizations find it hard to move from traditional authentication services. Coupled with the fact that consumers themselves have concerns, around things such as privacy as well as usability – for example, some services require the creation of long, complex passwords, which in turn, can be lost – also contributes to the slow adoption rates. 

This is where Keyless steps in.  Biometric authentication software that is intuitive to use, will make it easy for users to enrol to, and begin benefitting from services offered on these technologies. Using the Keyless technology, users can do away with passwords, and instead manage their cryptographic keys, with device-agnostic biometrics. In this way, the user becomes the key and their biometric data is never stored on a single device, or in a single data centre.

Keyless differs from other biometric authentication vendors as it’s a software-only solution, meaning it doesn’t rely on manufacturer hardware or technology. That means Finema customers can quickly and easily deploy biometric authentication into their apps and services. 

Finema and Keyless will work together to accelerate adoption of their combined solution in a joint go-to-market strategy. 

Keyless is a privacy-first passwordless authentication and personal identity management company. They are the first to combine multi-modal biometrics with privacy-enhancing technologies and a distributed cloud network for biometric authentication. Keyless’ proprietary technology eliminates the need for businesses to centrally store and manage passwords, biometric data, and other sensitive personal identifiable information.

Founded in 2017 as the first decentralized digital identity company in Thailand, Finema aims to take the world forward with decentralized digital identity technology. Finema collaborates with both public and private sectors to implement innovative solutions to practical problems people encounter in their modern-day life. Finema believes in creating a positive impact, not just buzzwords. The company is a major player in decentralized digital identity development. 

For more information, visit https://finema.co/ or follow Finema on LinkedIn 

Keyless and Finema partner to help accelerate adoption of self-sovereign and decentralized identity technologies

Keyless are excited to partner with Check Point Software Technologies to bring privacy-first biometric authentication to enterprises looking to enhance remote security. 

As organizations increasingly plan for a more people-centric approach, which requires location and device-independent solutions, this partnership comes at a good time. Integrated directly with Check Point’s VPN and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) protected applications, Check Point customers can now easily deploy zero-trust biometric authentication. This can be done in conjunction with their existing cyber security infrastructure, to help combat threats such as stolen credentials. 

Using Keyless’ biometric authentication software, Check Point customers can enable their employees to authenticate to corporate systems simply by looking into the front-facing camera of their device, eradicating the need for passwords. 

Keyless differs from other biometric authentication vendors as it’s a software-only solution. That means it doesn’t rely on manufacturer hardware or technology. The value to Check Point customers is that they can quickly deploy biometric authentication to employees without needing to overhaul or replace existing security infrastructure. 

Check Point and Keyless will work together to accelerate adoption of their combined solution in a joint go-to-market strategy.

Keyless partners with Check Point Software Technologies

We’re excited to announce we’ve recently joined the FIDO Alliance to help accelerate the Alliance’s mission to end over-reliance on passwords with our privacy-first biometric authentication solutions

 is a cross-industry coalition developing open, interoperable authentication standards that reduce reliance on passwords.

The alliance was formed in July 2012 to address the lack of interoperability among strong authentication technologies, and remedy the problems users face with creating and remembering multiple usernames and passwords.

Keyless can help deliver secure, seamless digital experiences for your end-users.

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