The Kiel start-up company Hanko.io wants to offer developers an easy-to-implement method to integrate password-free identity and access management (IAM) into any application – from desktop to mobile apps to browsers. For this purpose, Hanko.io has now officially launched the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Hanko Identity, which is based on the FIDO2 and WebAuthn standards.

Login without a password with FIDO2 and WebAuthn

While FIDO2 and its browser counterpart WebAuthn basically support passwordless login, and the procedure can also be used under Windows 10/11, Android (from version 7) as well as macOS and Apple’s mobile operating systems, numerous company applications in particular still see authentication by password before. The new Hanko Identity service is intended to remedy this with a plug-and-play approach and significantly simplify the implementation of IAM, because the integration of two-factor authentication methods or biometric processes in addition to passwords is often a complicated undertaking, according to the Hanko founders and CEO Felix Magedanz emphasized in the announcement.

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