identity, passkey, cloud, mobile, wearable
Many banking apps have introduced an experience to allow you to login with just a FaceID or TouchID. The experience works as follows: 2. When you consent, a system prompt pops up to confirm FaceID/TouchID enrollment. 3. When you login in the future, a FaceID/TouchID prompt pops up automatically, and if the scan is successful, [ ]
Are you considering adopting Passkey? It is not a one line code change to integrate Passkey, due to the immature platform implementation and the user education required. I gave a talk at IdentiVerse 2023 to highlight what you need to consider when you adopt Passkey. If you missed my talk, or could not attend IdentiVerse, here is [ ]
Apple introduced Passkey a year ago in WWDC2022. It is ground breaking in that it allows the private key in a FIDO credential to be stored in the iCloud keychain, and facilitates it to be propagated from device to device. While it makes the FIDO credential easy to use, and it solves the bootstrapping problem [ ]
You heard of passkey from somewhere, or you start to see some websites or mobile apps using passkey, but you have no idea what it is. You are not alone! In a recent user research we conducted on our user base, we found that a very small number of people have heard of it, and [ ]
Apple announced Passkey in WWDC’22 a couple of months ago. Both Microsoft and Google quickly followed suit, announcing their support in the RSA and IdentiVerse conferences. Passkey is promising to potentially replace passwords eventually, but the road to that promise may be long and bumpy. There are at least 3 issues that will prevent a [ ]
I estimated Amazon data center size about two years ago using a unique probing technique that I came up with. Since then, I have been tracking their growth (US East data center monthly, but less frequently for all data centers). Now is the time to give you all an update. Physical server I will not [ ]
In-memory computing is clearly hot. It is reported that SAP HANA has been one of SAP s more successful new products and perhaps the fastest growing new product the company ever launched . Similarly, I have heard Amazon DynamoDB is also a rapidly growing product for AWS. Part of the reason is that the price for [ ]
(Edit 3/16/2012: I am surprised that this post is picked up by a lot of media outlets. Given the strong interest, I want to emphasize what is measured and what is derived. The # of server racks in EC2 is what I am directly observing. By assuming 64 physical servers in a rack, I can [ ]
One potential benefit of using a public cloud, such as Amazon EC2, is that a cloud could be more efficient. In theory, a cloud can support many users, and it can potentially achieve a much higher server utilization through aggregating a large number of demands. But is it really the case in practice? If you [ ]
Getting started quick is one of the reasons that people adopted cloud, and that is why Amazon Web Services (AWS) is so popular. But people often overlook the fact that the retail part of Amazon is also amazing. If your project involves supply chain, you can also leverage Amazon retail to get up and running [ ]