Passwords are terrible, but with 2FA both you and your users are between a rock and a hard place. It causes dependency anxiety, process fatigue, delays, flow disruption, recovery trauma, you name it, 2FA is a tough trade-off. Security comes at great inconvenience and there is no way around it.
If your users engage with API bots, or you have B2B clients, tough luck, 2FA doesn't work for machines. "What you know", "you have", "you are", are exclusively human principles, so you are limited to passwords. The future is AI, AI Agents, Metaverse and even more machines - the future can't be 2FA.
Forget passwords, usernames, and 2FA, in fact forget authentication altogether. With mTLS Identity devices handle authentication autonomously and securely - they don't turn users into vulnerability vectors.
Users manage 2 or 3 trusted devices, in one place, instead of hundreds of service-specific credentials all over the place. This independent and portable model eliminates the complexity of co-managed credentials and drastically decreases the risk of credentila loss and impersonation.
You don't authenticate people, you authenticate devices using X.509 client certificates - a paradigm shift which not only eliminates authentication pain and all associated problems, it makes secure authentication universal for both user controlled and autonomous devices.
mTLS is widely regarded as the apogee of security. This proactive approach blocks even the most aggressive phishing and man in the middle attacks, like evil proxy and session hijacking, because you can granularly pinpoint devices belonging to a user account.
mTLS Identity achieves MFA security through device level isolation. The result is MFA surpassing security, with zero effort, which is automation and AI Agent compatible.
Let Users register their devices with Identity Plus by installing mTLS IDs (device purpose X.509 Digital Certificates) on trusted devices.
Bind user devices to user accounts and replace tedious logins with seamless, half-second access that surpasses MFA-level security.
Remove user management, password management, rotation and recovery from your services. Like sing-in-with but multi-factor and universal.
The human-designed, make-shift, shared and co-managed identity and authentication for services is broken. Switch to machine-first and you'll control your service identity space with utmost simplicity, transparency and scalability while enabling MFA grade security for inter-machine communication for both micro-service and with third party peers.
Use the Self-Authority command line tool to enroll automated, autonomous or any service agents as trusted devices.
You can fully automate your mTLS Identity lifecycle with something as simple as a cron job. Never worry about expiry, rotation or outages again.
Use mTLS Persona identity proxy to wrap any legacy plain-text clinet into an authenticated mTLS communication channel that can operate across any network, internal or even the untrusted Internet.
mTLS Identity and authentication is both network and application protocol independent. You can now have 1 identity and access control system to control any flow between any two systems across any environment regardless of ownership.
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