In today's technical world the most important thing in every one's is data protection. For that thing, all of us uses many different ways like password, bio metric authentication and etc. Some times we use more than one protection for more security. But this one password has some disadvantage also like in case it's possible that you're forgot your password and if you're password is the simple one then cracking password must be very simple for hackers. So those cases changing them frequently is also the impossible tasks. Here you all ask then what is the solution for this one. So our today's article gives one way to resolve this issue i.e Passwordless Magic Link. It's a time let's dig on the topic.
Magic links are a form of passwordless login. Instead of the user entering any login credentials to sign in, they are sent a URL with an embedded token via email, and sometimes via SMS. Once the user clicks that link to authenticate, they are redirected back to the application or system having successfully signed in—as if they used a “magic” password, but without the actual password.
Now we all know that what Magic Link is but here one doubt arise how it secure more than a password. The answer for this is as follows:
When the user submits their email and requests a magic link for login, the system performs a check to see if the email is tied to a valid user account.
If the email is tied to a valid user account, then the system sends an email to the submitted email address. This means that only the user who has access to the submitted email address can access the magic link.
A few more reasons "magic link" is secure:
The link sent to the user can only be used once.
The link expires after a maximum of 25 minutes.
The link can only be used on the device that requested the link. If a user forwards the email to a colleague, or the link is intercepted by another app on the phone, the link will not be usable.
Though there are numerous benefits of using a passwordless magic link, there are some challenges that particularly come with security blind spots. Magic links may help secure the transfer of information, ensuring the valid identity of the user. But since the security is tied with the user's account, it is wise that the email account is protected with multi-factor authentication.
Another challenge you might face with magic link apps is that the admins have no control over link sharing. Regardless of the user, admins are unable to keep track of the confidential or sensitive information shared with others. Apart from these challenges the major one is the increased cyber-attacks with nearly 7K global data breaches in 2019 that risked about 15 billion user records.
I think now you are all understand what and how the Passwordless authentication works. Other that this one the other methods also available they are OTP system, hardware authentication and etc. But here we discussed only the magic link others are explained in future. For that stay tune with me.
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