Passwords have never been ideal, and Microsoft has invested heavily in making passwordless a reality, reconfiguring Azure AD to offer passwordless login for its users from day one. Not only does this mean that your security is easily compromised, but it can mean that security is compromised wherever that password is used. People tend to use passwords that are easy to remember, and they tend to use the same password over multiple platforms. They’re the focus of most brute force attacks, social engineering, and phishing scams, and – because of their human component – they’re also the easiest and least secure element in any security system. Passwords represent a very real security issue.
Having exhausted thousands of character combinations, the password is inevitably revealed to be something astonishingly simple, such as ‘name1234’, their date of birth, or even just ‘Password’ (which still sits at number four in the top ten most used passwords of 2022, according to SplashData). It’s a running joke in movies that the protagonist needs to break into a highly secure system to get hold of sensitive information crucial to the plot.
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