Hands-On Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity

Are passwords obsolete?

Passwords have always been the main tool to guarantee the protection of user accounts over time; however, they have shown their limits.

As the number of online services (and different access platforms that you can use to access these services) grows, the number of passwords that the user must memorize has grown accordingly.

Since the robustness in the choice of alphanumeric codes constituting reliable passwords is opposed to their ease of management, users often use the same password for multiple accounts and services.

This contributes to the growth of the attack surface, raising the risk of being compromised. If an attacker succeeds in stealing a user's credentials (for example, their personal email account), it is ...