Security for Everyone

This is why I want to do an education stream about authentication. A lot of words are mixed between each other even by professionals. This is in part because the confusion between strong auth and multi-factor authentication.

Passkeys are a form of strong auth. Multi-factor is a form of strong auth.
Passkeys in the past were built as a Multi-factor method, but today replace multi-factor authentication.

If you ever used a hardware USB key for MFA, that is one form of passkey.
Passkeys are a protocol that uses cryptography for authentication. Here’s a little diagram that may help: