Pondering Portable Passwordless Passkeys in 2025 – Rew Islam – ESW #387
In this segment, we discuss two new FIDO Alliance standards focused on credential portability. Specifically, if passwordless is going to catch on, we need to minimize friction and maximize usability. In practice, this means that passkeys must be portable!
Rew Islam of Dashlane joins us to discuss the new standards and how they'll help us enter a new age of secure authentication, both for consumers and the enterprise.
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Rew Islam is the Director of Product Innovation at Dashlane. He joined Dashlane in 2011 as the password manager’s first iOS developer, eventually helping to lead the development of the Dashlane iOS and macOS apps. Rew is an active FIDO Alliance member who’s focused on all things passwordless and phishing-resistant. Prior to joining Dashlane, Rew was an iOS/Web engineer for Xerox Research Centre Europe where he led the development of several photo-sharing apps. Rew hails from Brick Lane in the East End of London and holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Cybernetics from the University of Reading in the UK.
