In this video for Help Net Security, Christofer Hoff, Chief Secure Technology Officer at LastPass, talks about the benefits of passwordless authentication.

The basic components needed to make passwordless authentication a reality are:

• An open, standard set of processes, technologies, APIs, etc., to enable all the various components to work together across devices, operating systems, browsers and applications.
• Support for the creation and storage of cryptographical elements needed to generate pass keys.
• We need to make sure there’s a way of securely making those pass keys available across any device that we need to authenticate.