Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Say goodbye to passwords for inbox

Two-factor authentication is certainly the buzz and implementation for organizations but what about removing passwords in that equation.  Yahoo Mail is introducing “account key” to remove passwords altogether by leveraging only your username and mobile device.    Sign up is this week - which detects the PC source and uses your mobile device basically as key, allowing password free login unless “suspicious” activity is detected.  A disable component is also said to be featured – You’ve got Yahoo Mail.  The new mail app requires a later version of iOS and Android; and of course feature rich and look-and-feel as Yahoo promotes Yahoo Mail to compete with Gmail and other markets as schemes for password solution of Twitter.

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