Expensify — a popular expense management platform — recently adopted a “passwordless” security procedure.

For the past ten years my company has been using three very popular customer relationship management, accounting and office collaboration systems. And over the past ten years the security hasn’t changed. We’re still using passwords.

And this is a problem. I keep very confidential and important information in our systems. My employees make up their own passwords but we all know how bad we are at coming up with unique ones, let alone changing them all the time, let alone remembering what we changed them to. I have a password vault but those platforms sometimes concern me because they have a history of getting hacked, which is not very vault-like. Google and Microsoft have their own password managers but these also don’t seem very secure because they’re device driven and if someone steals a device well, that’s an issue.

(Read the full column in Forbes)

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