Passwords remain one of the most exploited weaknesses in enterprise security, not because employees are careless but because a shared secret that must be remembered, typed, and occasionally reused is inherently vulnerable to phishing, credential stuffing, and simple fatigue. Passkeys, built on public-key cryptography bound to a physical device, eliminate the shared secret entirely: there is nothing for an attacker to phish because the private key never leaves the user’s device.
Planning for the messy middle, not just the end state
A realistic passkey rollout has to account for the long transition period where passwords and passkeys coexist, employees use multiple devices with inconsistent passkey support, and account recovery must remain both secure and usable when a device is lost. Skipping this planning in favor of a rapid mandate typically produces a wave of help desk tickets and workarounds that quietly reintroduce the weaknesses passkeys were meant to close.
Prioritizing rollout to the highest-risk populations first—administrators, finance staff, and anyone with access to sensitive systems—delivers the bulk of the risk reduction before extending to the broader workforce, and surfaces integration issues with legacy applications while the stakes of a rollback are still low.
JIG helps enterprises plan passwordless authentication rollouts that account for the operational realities, not just the cryptographic ones.