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EP 97: Passwordless Authentication with James Azar

May 26, 2023·53 min·4 clips
80% of breaches come from one thing: weak passwords—but passwordless authentication is changing everything.
Hosts Kip and Jason interview James Azar, CTO of critical infrastructure security firm AP4 Group, about passwordless authentication—the industry shift moving away from passwords. They discuss why 80% of breaches stem from weak passwords, user experience challenges with current passwordless solutions, and how Google, Apple, and Microsoft are collaborating on unified passwordless standards using phones as secure authentication devices.

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Passwordless only works when the identity plumbing underneath it is solid.

The episode keeps passwordless authentication grounded in the plumbing. James Azar frames it as a fit problem for Active Directory, APIs, and the identity tokens moving between systems, which makes the discussion feel concrete instead of airy.

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You want the real implementation risk behind passwordless, not the marketing pitch.

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