Microsoft Security announcements and demos at Authenticate 2024

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Session Description  

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Passkeys on Windows: Paving the way to a frictionless future! 

UX Fundamentals

Discover the future of passkey authentication on Windows. Explore our enhanced UX, powered by Microsoft AI and designed for seamless experiences across platforms. Join us as we pave the way towards a passwordless world. 

Speakers: 

Sushma K. Principal Program Manager, Microsoft 

Ritesh Kumar Software Engineer, Microsoft 

October 14th  

12:00 – 12:25 PM 

Passkeys on Windows: New platform features 

Technical Fundamentals and Features

This is an exciting year for us as we’re bringing some great passkey features to Windows users. In this session, I’ll discuss our new capabilities for synced passkeys protected by Windows Hello, and I’ll walk through a plugin model for third-party passkey providers to integrate with our Windows experience. Taken together, these features make passkeys more readily available wherever users need them, with the experience, flexibility, and durability that users should expect when using their passkeys on Windows.  

Speaker: 

Bob Gilbert Software Engineering Manager, Microsoft 

October 14th 

2:30 – 2:55 PM 

We love passkeys – but how can we convince a billion users? 

Keynote

It’s clear that passkeys will be core component of a passwordless future. The useability and security advantages are clear. What isn’t as clear is how we actually convince billions of users to step away from a decades-long relationship with passwords and move to something new. Join us as we share insights on how to accelerate adoption when users, platforms, and applications needs are constantly evolving. We will share practical UX patterns and practices, including messaging, security implications,  

and how going passwordless changes the concept of account recovery.  

Speakers:  

Scott Bingham Principal Product Manager, Microsoft  

Sangeeta Ranjit Group Product Manager, Microsoft 

  October 14th 

5:05 – 5:25 PM 

Stop counting actors… Start describing authentication events 

Vision and Future  

We began deploying multifactor authentication because passwords provided insufficient security. More factors equal more security, right? Yes, but we continue to see authentication attacks such as credential stuffing and phishing! The identity industry needs to stop thinking in the quantity of authentication factors and start thinking about the properties of the authentication event. As we transition into the era of passkeys, it’s time to consider how we describe the properties of our authentication event. In this talk, we’ll demonstrate how identity providers and relying parties can communicate a consistent, composable collection of authentication properties. To raise the security bar and provide accountability, these properties must communicate not only about the authentication event, but about the security primitives underlying the event itself. These properties can be used to drive authentication and authorization decisions in standalone and federated environments, enabling clear, consistent application of security controls.  

Speakers: 

Pamela Dingle Director of Identity Standards, Microsoft  

Dean H. Saxe Principal Engineer, Office of the CTO, Beyond Identity 

October 16th 

10:00 – 10:25 AM 

Bringing passkeys into your passwordless journey 

Passkeys in the Enterprise

Most of our enterprise customers are deploying some form of passwordless credential or planning to in the next few years, however, the industry is all abuzz with excitement about passkeys. What do passkeys mean for your organization’s passwordless journey? Join the Microsoft Entra ID product team as we explore the impact of passkeys on the passwordless ecosystem, share insights from Microsoft’s own passkey implementation and customer experiences.

Speakers: 

Tim Larson – Senior Product Manager, Identity Network and Access, Security, Microsoft 

Micheal Epping – Senior Product Manager, Microsoft 

 October 16th 

11:00 – 11:25 AM