The future of secure authentication, in my opinion, is fingerprints, coupled with physical device fingerprinting. This provides a strong two factor authentication, and is millions of times safer than userID/password authentication. Not to mention, it is much easier to have your fingerprint scanned, than type in your userID and password.

There is only one way to make password secure. It is to eliminate them. If you don't have a password, it can't be stolen.

We have the ability to login without usedIDs or passwords, today. Our phones can become our digital identity and completely eliminate the need for userIDs and passwords. Fingerprint recognition will play an important part because it is so convenient to use and has been reliable on iPhones. And when it is also available on Android phones, in mass, then perhaps we can upgrade our 50-year old experience of logging in with passwords.

Mainframes revolutionized businesses. Mini-computers replaced mainframes. Then PCs and Intel servers replaced mini-computers. Mobile devices are replacing PCs. But we still login with userIDs and passwords, like we used to 50-years ago.

It is time for a change, we can do better and be more secure. Fingerprint readers on every phone can be what we need to get us there.