Compare the FIDO Passkey Roll-Out Guides
The following table compares the two roll-out guides. Examine the table to help decide which guide best fits the needs of your organization and your users.
This documentation addresses the needs of organizations that are consumer-based. Implementing support for passkeys for the following organization types requires extra considerations not yet covered in this documentation:
- Government
- eCitizen
- Government employees
- Consumer regulated
- Finance
- TelCo
- Healthcare
- Workforce
Organizations in these categories can use this documentation to start working with passkeys, however, there are considerations not covered on Passkey Central, such as such as domain-specific regulations, that must be examined. Passkey Central does provide universal information (such as core user flows to consider) that can help your organization start implementing support for passkeys. Refer to Passkey Use Cases for more information.
Summary
Compare the high-level attributes for each roll-out guide.
| Adopt Gradually | Adopt Rapidly | |
|---|---|---|
| Summary | Gradually get your customer base to adopt passkeys. | Rapidly get your customer base to adopt passkeys. |
| Scope of work for initial launch | Small | Medium |
| Business goal | Gather learnings from organic growth of simpler stronger passkey authentication offered as a user discoverable opt-in from Account Settings. Consciously lowers change management risk at the price of longer time to business payoff. | Rapidly realize business benefits of passkeys, including higher sign-in rate, faster sign-in times, lower cart abandonment, and less account takeover, by actively promoting simpler stronger passkey authentication. This guide consciously accepts larger change management risk to achieve faster time to business payoff. |
| Change management required to execute the guide | Small | Medium |
| End user adoption | Gradual | Quick |
| Leadership | A small team within a single department can implement this strategy. | A division leader can implement this strategy with support a few additional departments. |
| Process | Work within existing processes. | Might require new processes. |
| Internal change management required | Minimal | Some |
| Budget | Small | Medium |
| Approximate duration to initial launch | 6 months | 1 year |
Benefits are proportional to adoption
The benefits of passkeys are directly proportional to passkey use.
The gradual roll-out strategy deliberately slows the rate at which users create passkeys. This requires less upfront capital, allows more time to for you to learn how users prefer to use passkeys, and allows you to iterate and adjust your implementation of passkeys to your unique business context and user environment.
This rapid roll-out strategy commits to invest the upfront capital to rapidly transition customers to use passkeys. In return, the customer benefits of passkeys are realized more rapidly.
