The Next Era of Authentication

Co-authored by Ant Allan

The next era of authentication requires organizations to move beyond point-in-time, binary authentication toward continuous, risk-aware evaluation of identity trust. This white paper examines how organizations can strengthen authentication across workforce, consumer, partner, machine and AI identities while reducing account takeover risk.

Explore the immediate priorities for resilient authentication, including phishing-resistant and passwordless methods, passkeys, modern authentication protocols and stronger credential protection. The paper also examines longer-term shifts such as continuous authentication, decentralized identity, post-quantum authentication and crypto agility. 

What you will learn:

• Why authentication needs to evolve toward continuous, risk-aware trust evaluation
• How passwordless and phishing-resistant authentication can reduce authentication risk
• How organizations should approach machine and AI agent identities
• The role of decentralized identity and continuous authentication
• How to prepare authentication infrastructure for post-quantum cryptography