The move away from passwords and hard tokens
Deploying, managing, and replacing hard tokens is costly. The Ponemon Institute estimates their total lifetime cost at $45, with Forrester Research placing this estimate at $60. Organizations with high turnovers or shift-working employees spend thousands of hours a year issuing and replacing lost credentials and damaged hard tokens.
Traditional authentication methods that offer multi user or multi device flows, such as Windows Hello, are also not portable and are limited to a certain number of users per device.