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.