According to new research from the FIDO Alliance, individuals experience a 93% sign-in success rate when using passkeys—which is more than double that achieved with other authentication methods.
This figure comes from FIDO’s 2025 Passkey Index, a new report that provides a comprehensive view of the adoption, utilization, and business impacts of passkeys.
Launched this week at the FIDO Alliance’s flagship conference Authenticate 2025, the report combines data from leading service providers to help quantify the impact of passkeys.
The Passkey Index also found that users experience a 73% decrease in login time when using passkeys, and service providers experience a reduction of up to 81% in login-related Help Desk incidents.
Thanks in part to these usability benefits, passkey adoption has grown rapidly since the technology’s inception in 2022; FIDO estimates that approximately 3 billion passkeys are being used today to secure consumer accounts.
“Over the past several days alone, I’ve enrolled a passkey for my grocery store app, for an airline, and for my healthcare system,” said Andrew Shikiar, CEO at FIDO Alliance, in his opening keynote on Monday. “I think that spread of use cases really speaks to the breadth of deployment that we’re seeing of passkeys.”
This year, adoption has largely been driven by healthcare and banking, with many providers implementing passkey support for consumer sign-ins to not only improve the user login experience, but to increase security.
“Passkeys protect against credential theft by creating a unique key pair for every service I enroll in,” Shikiar told Expert Insights in an exclusive interview. “One is a public key, which sits on the server, and the private key sits with myself or my passkey provider.
“For my private key to be activated, I need to verify myself to that private key locally on my device. Oftentimes, it’s just a face ID, touch ID, or local biometric. There’s no way to spoof that, so the only way you can get my private key is to physically take my device, which you could do on a one-to-one basis, but the scalable attacks that are plaguing our economy and causing massive breaches go away with this model.”
The Future Of Authentication
With passkey adoption rates increasing exponentially amongst consumers, the “passwordless future” that many identity security professionals have dreamed of is no longer is dream; it’s a reality. Looking forward, the industry needs to focus on improving user experience, eliminating the use of knowledge-based recovery methods, and encouraging enterprise adoption of passkeys, Shikiar said, speaking at Authenticate 2025.
“It blows me away that a CISO could sit in their enterprise and still rely on passwords and knowledge-based forms of authentication to protect their corporate assets,” Shikiar told Expert Insights. “It borders on negligence, frankly.”
“Every couple of weeks you read about a social engineering attack or some sort of new exploit that takes advantage of knowledge-based credentials […] so what we need to do is take the burden off the user.
“That’s what passkeys do.”
As part of its mission to eliminate knowledge-based recovery methods, the FIDO Alliance plans to develop foundational standards and certification programs to support emerging efforts for digital credentialling.
“We will create foundational specifications that are applicable to the market, building from CTAP to create a new protocol for cross device credential presentation,” Shikiar said during his keynote. “We’ll focus on enablement and usability.”
