The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is recommending passkeys as the default authentication method for businesses to offer consumers, citing industry progress that now makes them a more secure and user-friendly alternative to passwords. In a blog post published this week, the agency said passkeys can now be recommended to both the public and businesses as a primary authentication method. “Passkeys should now be consumers’ first choice of login,” the UK cybersecurity authority said in a blog post, adding that passwords are “no longer resilient enough for the contemporary world.” “Passkeys are a newer method for logging into online accounts which do much of the heavy lifting for user...