Passkey & FIDO Alliance News
Ongoing coverage of passkeys and the FIDO Alliance: adoption milestones, standards and specification updates, deployment lessons, and independent analysis. See also the WebAuthn / FIDO2 standard and our guide to passwordless authentication.
← All posts- News · Jul 15, 2026Google Workspace puts FIDO2 keys into the Windows login, days after Entra makes passkeys default
Google began rolling out FIDO2 security keys as a second factor at Windows sign-in for all Workspace customers on 13 July. Microsoft is making passkeys the default in Entra ID from 1 September. Two vendors, one direction, and the desktop is the new battleground.
- News · Jul 14, 2026Entra ID makes passkeys the default, and retires SMS and voice in 2027
From September 2026 Entra ID auto-enables passkeys for users on SMS or voice. On 1 February 2027 those two methods stop working entirely, for every tenant, with no opt-out. Admins have a hard deadline and a scanner script to find who is affected.
- Analysis · Jun 12, 2026Identiverse 2026 recap: agentic identity grows up, and passkeys get real
Our takeaways from Identiverse 2026 in Las Vegas: AI agent identity moved from theory to roadmap, passkeys turned operational, deepfakes pressured identity verification, and session security took center stage.
- News · Jun 25, 2025Microsoft makes new consumer accounts passwordless by default
From May 2025, new Microsoft accounts are created without a password at all and default to passkeys. Existing accounts keep their passwords. It is the largest default-passwordless move to date, across Windows, Microsoft 365, and Xbox sign-ins.