How do we measure security benefits vs. productivity impact for passkeys for sign-in?

Top Benefits of Ethical Hacking Tools in 2025

• Proactive Threat Identification
• Comprehensive Security Coverage
• Automation & Continuous Testing
• Regulatory & Compliance Alignment
• Insider Threat Detection
• Realistic Attack Simulation
• Cost-Effective Risk Reduction
• Skill Development & Team Enablement

Step by Step Evaluation Framework

• Define Your Testing Scope
• Assess Coverage Breadth
• Evaluate Automation & Continuous Testing
• Check Accuracy & Detection Quality
• Integration & Workflow Fit
• Compliance & Reporting
• Scalability & Performance
• Community & Vendor Support

• Users should be educated on the workings of passkeys (device/cloud-synced, WebAuthn prompts) to help them differentiate between normal and unexpected prompts.
• Show users legitimate consent dialogs from their IdP and browsers, so they don't misidentify them as phishing attempts.
• Users should be educated on prompts that can appear across devices (e.g. Bluetooth proximity) so they understand the logic behind seeing a sign-in prompt on another device.
• Users should understand what types of prompts to report, unexpected prompts, repeated failures, prompting for sign-in when they weren't signing in.

• Authentication Policy: Update to declare passkeys as the only allowed primary factor, remove passwords/OTP, and define rules for device-bound vs cloud-synced authenticators.
• Account Lifecycle & Recovery Policy: Add procedures for lost-device recovery, re-enrollment, and revocation of old passkeys.
• Access Control Policy: Require all internal apps to use SSO + WebAuthn, block legacy login flows, and enforce periodic access reviews.
• Security & Incident Response Policy: Add guidelines for passkey compromise handling, audit logging, and mandatory reporting of authentication-related anomalies.

• Start with SSO-based enrollment so users create a passkey during a normal login, without extra steps or new apps.
• Allow both device and cloud-synced passkeys so users can sign in across laptops/phones without re-registration.
• Add clear in-app prompts that guide users through WebAuthn setup and explain that passwords/OTP won’t be needed again.
• Run a short grace period where both methods work, then auto-migrate everyone and disable passwords once adoption reaches target levels.