Passwords, MFA and passkeys
Why passwords fail, what France’s CNIL and ANSSI recommend, password managers, MFA and passkeys: a practical action plan to protect a small business’s accounts.
Presented byBelinda
11 min readUpdated on 2 October 2026What you will learn
- How passwords get stolen: data breaches, credential stuffing, infostealers, phishing
- How to apply the recommendations of France’s CNIL and ANSSI: length, entropy, renewal
- How to choose and roll out a password manager
- The types of MFA, from SMS to FIDO2 keys, and their limits against MFA fatigue and AitM attacks
- What passkeys are, and a realistic action plan for a small business
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Chapter 1 is free to read. Chapters 2 to 21, like the Junior, Senior and Expert levels of the Cyber Quiz, are free too: all you need is a free KrakenShield account with a confirmed email address.
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