The FIDO Alliance’s Universal Second Factor (U2F) authentication is a good example of a standard that supports hardware tokens for accessing online services. These are hardware-based cards or keys like Yubikey or Google’s Titan that must be plugged into the computer or held next to it to authenticate the user. Dashlane clearly considers hardware-based authentication superior though, as it awarded three points for websites that offered this option. They got another for using software tokens like Google Authenticator. They got one point if they offered SMS or email authentication. It scored each site out of five, based on several criteria. Password management company Dashlane examined 34 of the more popular consumer websites in the US to see how well they supported MFA. The move to support 2FA is happening, slowly, but a report released this week suggests that many sites are lagging behind.
How many of them offer you greater security with multi- or two-factor authentication (MFA or 2FA)? Think of five websites that you have a user account for. Online services have several options as they move beyond passwords to try and make accounts more secure.
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