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Yes. Authsignal helps organizations move customers toward phishing-resistant and lower-friction methods such as passkeys while retaining appropriate fallback options.

By reducing unnecessary challenges and shifting repeat authentication away from SMS, organizations can improve the customer experience while reducing authentication costs. Air New Zealand reduced SMS authentication costs by 90% after introducing passkeys and WhatsApp-first authentication with Authsignal.

Yes. Authsignal actions can apply authentication to payments, account changes, recovery flows and other sensitive customer actions.

Yes. Authsignal is designed to layer on top of existing identity infrastructure rather than requiring a migration or re-platforming project.

Yes. Authsignal supports authentication across web, mobile, kiosk, contact centre, retail and in-person customer interactions using the same authentication layer.

Authsignal supports passkeys as part of the wider authentication journey, including enrollment, rollout, fallback and step-up authentication. This helps teams focus not only on deploying passkeys, but on getting customers to actually adopt and use them.

First Credit Union has deployed Authsignal passkeys across its banking experience, with more than half of all authentications now completed using passkeys.

Yes.

Authsignal provides APIs, SDKs, pre-built UI, custom UI options, authentication methods, a no-code rules engine, session management, custom identity provider integrations, and support for external risk and business signals.

These capabilities can be combined to create authentication journeys around the requirements of the application rather than relying on one fixed authentication flow.

Composable authentication building blocks are individual authentication and verification capabilities that engineering teams can combine into different customer journeys.

Examples include:

• Passkeys
• Biometrics
• Push authentication
• TOTP
• OTP
• Magic links
• Digital credential verification
• Risk signals
• Step-up authentication
• Business rules
• Session management

Rather than requiring every customer to follow the same authentication flow, these capabilities can be combined and orchestrated differently depending on the customer, action, channel, and risk.

Authsignal is best suited to organizations that need more control over authentication across the customer journey, without replacing their existing identity stack.

Authsignal is particularly suited to organizations looking to:

• Reduce unnecessary authentication challenges for trusted, low-risk customers
• Deploy production passkeys and improve customer adoption
• Introduce risk-based authentication across login, payments, recovery and other sensitive actions
• Reduce reliance on SMS OTP by introducing lower-friction, phishing-resistant authentication methods
• Manage authentication policy without hard-coding every rule into customer-facing applications
• Create consistent authentication across channels, including web, mobile, contact centre and in-person journeys
• Improve authentication conversion by balancing security requirements with customer friction
• Modernize authentication without migrating or replacing the existing identity stack

Yes, for teams that want risk-based authentication to extend across the wider customer journey. Authsignal can apply step-up authentication to login, payments, account recovery and other sensitive actions, using contextual and business signals to determine whether an action should be allowed, challenged, reviewed or blocked.

Auth0's Adaptive MFA is centered on login transactions. Auth0 also allows teams to customize MFA behavior using Actions, but this involves adding code to the authentication flow.

Yes. Authsignal provides a visual no-code rules engine for managing authentication policy, while Auth0 Actions allow developers to customize authentication flows using code.

With Authsignal, teams can evaluate device, network, location, transaction and business context to determine when stronger authentication is required, giving product, fraud, security and compliance teams more direct control after the initial integration.

Yes, particularly for teams that want passkeys to sit within a wider authentication journey. Authsignal provides FIDO2-certified passkeys that can be embedded into existing applications using pre-built UI, components or SDKs, then orchestrated alongside other authentication methods, step-up and risk-based policies.

Auth0 also supports passkeys, but its native implementation has specific requirements around Universal Login, authentication profiles and database connections.

Yes. Authentication-specific decisioning that might otherwise be implemented through custom Auth0 Actions can be moved into Authsignal's visual no-code rules engine.

Teams can configure when to allow an action, trigger step-up authentication, send an action for review or block it based on contextual and business signals, reducing the amount of authentication logic that needs to be maintained in code.

Yes. Authsignal integrates with an existing Auth0 environment,  so teams can add passkeys, adaptive MFA and no-code authentication policy without replacing  Auth0 or migrating users. See the Authsignal integrations page for more information.

Yes. Authsignal is designed to layer on top of existing identity infrastructure, including Amazon Cognito, Azure AD B2C, Keycloak, WSO2 and custom-built systems, with no migration or re-platforming project.