Badge Inc. today announced that a namesake platform that enables end users to securely be authenticated on-demand using any device is now generally available.

In addition, the company has allied with Okta to provide integration with an identity access management (IAM) platform. …

One of the reasons MFA has not been more widely adopted is that existing approaches are tied to devices. If an end user doesn’t have that device or it is lost or stolen, the credentials provided to them have to be reset. The Badge platform, in contrast, makes use of biometric factors combined with, for example, passive attributes such as physical features or PINs to create an MFA method that doesn’t rely on a device or token to authenticate users.

As organizations look to embrace zero-trust IT, many of them are revisiting how they authenticate end users. Credentials such as passwords are easily stolen via phishing campaigns and other tactics at rates that make existing approaches in authentication obsolete. …

One way or another, existing approaches to authentication need to be replaced if cybersecurity teams hope to have a fighting chance to protect IT environments that today are too easily compromised.