(BUSINESS WIRE) NEW YORK. The Passkey Journey is a free, GDPR-compliant tool designed to assist development and user experience (UX) teams in understanding, planning, and optimizing various end user authentication experiences. With just a few lines of code, the tool provides much-needed insight into the suffering caused by UX discrepancies across browsers and devices and addresses fundamental difficulties around passkey usage.
Passkeys are a highly secure, user-friendly password substitute that let users log in using their device biometrics, like their fingerprints or faces, or a PIN or pattern. The use of passkeys by a user, however, is dependent on the browser and device they are using, as well as whether those devices implement the WebAuthn protocol. Development teams now have blind spots in terms of user experience (UX) impact, implementation lift, and passkey deployment strategy due to the complexity of browser support for passkeys, sometimes known as the “browser dilemma”.
The Passkey Journey is a small JavaScript code snippet that, when added to a website, scans visitor browsers and devices to assess WebAuthn capability and generates a live report of the user base’s passkey usage readiness. Now that passkeys can be used with biometrics, only with security keys, or not at all, developers, product managers, UX designers, and product security engineers will have access to a precise breakdown of the percentage of website users who can use passkeys in either of these ways. The study also includes interactive UX flows that give each UX scenario context. In order to reduce the technological gap, maximize the distribution of passkeys, and enable more people to utilize passkeys, the paper offers deployment ideas.
Passkeys represent a turning point in authentication since they provide a seamless and safe solution to the ongoing problems with user authentication. The problem for development teams, however, is to address uneven user experiences across browsers and devices due to platforms’ swift platform evolution, according to Jasson Casey, CTO of Beyond Identity. “We’re thrilled to present a straightforward tool that can quickly assist teams in understanding their users’ ability to use passkeys for authentication and making wise deployment decisions.”
The Passkey Journey gives development and UX teams a free, straightforward, and revolutionary tool that provides more insight into the passkey preparedness of their user bases. People who use the tool will not only have a better understanding of the variations in how WebAuthn is supported by different devices and browsers, but they will also have the knowledge they need to design passkeys more rapidly, predict UX impact precisely, and integrate passkeys more confidently and swiftly.
Driving the adoption of passkeys is a crucial objective for the FIDO Alliance. According to Andrew Shikiar, executive director and chief marketing officer of the FIDO Alliance, “during the past year, we have issued research-backed UX standards to promote consumer deployments and best practice deployment papers to facilitate enterprise adoption. “Beyond Identity has made a significant contribution to the work being done by the FIDO Alliance to address deployment issues for businesses wishing to support passkeys. Enterprises may make educated decisions about their passkey deployments by using the Passkey Journey, a useful development tool.