Apple @ Work: Dashlane’ Passkey Power Report shows why enterprise IT must prepare for a passwordless future - 9to5Mac

Apple @ Work is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle , the only Apple Unified Platform. Mosyle is the only solution that integrates in a single professional-grade platform all the solutions necessary to seamlessly and automatically deploy, manage & protect Apple devices at work. Over 45,000 organizations trust Mosyle to make millions of Apple devices work-ready with no effort and at an affordable cost. Request your EXTENDED TRIAL today and understand why Mosyle is everything you need to work with Apple . Dashlane’s new Passkey Power Report makes something very clear for consumers and businesses alike. Passkeys are no longer a future project for IT departments. They are becoming part of daily life for end-users, and the adoption curve will rapidly accelerate from here. According to the report, 40% of Dashlane customers now store at least one passkey, which is double what the report showed last year. One likely huge reason for this growth is that Google made passkeys the default for personal Google accounts, pushing its own usage up more than 350%. Even SaaS apps like HubSpot and Okta are experiencing rapid growth as they roll out support. About Apple @ Work: Bradley Chambers managed an enterprise IT network from 2009 to 2021. Through his experience deploying and managing firewalls, switches, a mobile device management system, enterprise grade Wi-Fi, 1000s of Macs, and 1000s of iPads, Bradley will highlight ways in which Apple IT managers deploy Apple devices, build networks to support them, train users, stories from the trenches of IT management, and ways Apple could improve its products for IT departments. For Apple IT teams, the timing of this report lines up with something important happening inside the Apple ecosystem. Apple announced support for the FIDO Alliance’s passkey portability standard in iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS 26. It may seem like a minor feature, but it addresses one of the biggest challenges enterprises have faced with passkeys on Apple devices. Until now, passkeys lived inside Apple Passwords with no clean way to move them to a third-party tool that a business might standardize on. With passkey portability, employees and IT teams can move a credential between Apple Passwords to another password manager (or from one password SaaS to another) without using insecure CSV files. There is also a straightforward security benefit. Passwords still drive most breaches. Passkeys eliminate entire categories of incidents by eliminating phishing, password reuse, and credential stuffing from the attack surface. The Dashlane report clearly indicates that end-user behavior is shifting. Once people become accustomed to signing in without passwords, they tend to resist going back. This will put pressure on businesses to modernize their login flows, particularly as more SaaS tools adopt passkeys as the primary authentication option. Enterprise adoption accelerates when the biggest SaaS players commit HubSpot and Okta entering the top domains for Dashlane usage is a major signal that passkeys are hitting the mainstream of business and enterprise services. These are not niche tools. They are core parts of the...

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