Over the past decade we’ve had numerous reminders of the weaknesses of passwords, yet we still continue to rely on them for digital security. Just consider the Compilation of Many Breaches (COMB), the largest data leak to date in which more than 3 billion unique sets of login credential were shared online, and it’s easy to realize why passwords are quickly becoming a relic of a bygone era.

So it’s no surprise that over half (51.7%) of Americans prefer biometric authentication over passwords. Facial recognition portals increasingly protect our digital payments and physical access control; iris recognition is used for national ID programs and defense; speech verification is used for multi-factor authentication (MFA) by phone and by disabled persons to access a multitude of applications securely; and fingerprint scanners continue to be leveraged for personal hardware protection, door access and border identity control.