Rolling out passkeys in a large enterprise is not just about enabling a new authentication method. Success depends on careful planning around enrollment, recovery, legacy applications, audit requirements, rollout strategy, and user adoption.

Your VPN may be protected, patched, and secured with strong authentication. But if it remains publicly visible, it can still be discovered, scanned, fingerprinted, and targeted.

As global regulations tighten, the question is no longer whether to adopt passkeys, but how to deploy them at scale while meeting regulatory expectations. Terms like “phishing-resistant MFA” appear increasingly in guidance from NIST, CISA, ENISA, NCSC, and under frameworks such as NIS2 and DORA but their practical meaning is often unclear.

Passkeys and FIDO-based authentication significantly raise the security bar, but deploying them across real enterprise environments is rarely straightforward. Legacy protocols, long-lived applications, and hybrid IAM architectures often block a simple rollout.

Passwords are not just a security liability, they are a measurable operational cost. From helpdesk tickets and resets to breach response and compliance overhead, password-based authentication quietly drains resources across large organizations.