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Tech security reimagined: How password-less authentication works

Firms are adopting zero-trust and password-less authentication to combat the enhanced threat landscape in remote work

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Mobility, distributed work, and the growing use of cloud solutions have brought huge benefits in scalability and cost.

Shivani ShindePeerzada Abrar
With remote work becoming the norm as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, companies realised that their conventional security architecture was not best-equipped to deal with a distributed workforce.

Mobility, distributed work, and the growing use of cloud solutions have brought huge benefits in scalability and cost. But they expanded the security perimeter, bringing new challenges. 

Take the example of Infosys, India’s second-largest information technology services firm, with close to 250,000 employees. While readying to support employees working from home last year, it realised that its security architecture needed changing. Indeed, the company undertook multiple changes to its security architect in 2020.

“Traditionally,