SINGAPORE -- RSA, the security-first identity leader, today announced new passwordless authentication support for Linux environments, marking another milestone in the company's ongoing mission to deliver passwordless access to every user, in every environment, every time. The announcement was made at Authenticate APAC 2026, taking place June 2-3 at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore.

Linux is ubiquitous in enterprise infrastructure—powering servers, developer workstations, and critical operational environments across industries from financial services to government. Despite its reach, Linux users have historically been underserved by passwordless solutions, often left to rely on legacy credential-based access while users elsewhere deployed modern passwordless form factors. The Linux passwordless support from RSA closes that gap, ensuring that the same phishing-resistant, FIDO-based authentication capabilities available across Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android can now extend to Linux users without exception.

The announcement reflects a deliberate strategy. Where many vendors deliver passwordless solutions that work in ideal conditions—cloud environments, modern operating systems, or for specific user groups—RSA has built authentication around the harder problem: delivering E2E passwordless solutions for every user, every time, in every environment. RSA passwordless solutions extend across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid deployments, supporting legacy applications, hardware-dependent workflows, and now Linux environments.

“Passwordless everywhere isn’t a marketing aspiration for RSA—it’s a working architecture,” said Jim Taylor, RSA President, Chief Product and Strategy Officer. “Until now, most vendors have overlooked critical edge use cases like Linux, consigning critical financial services, government, energy, and high assurance infrastructure sectors to some of the most insecure authentication methods. That ends today. RSA doesn’t deliver passwordless where it’s convenient: we deliver passwordless where it’s needed. Linux users deserve the same phishing-resistant, frictionless authentication experience as every other user in the enterprise, and RSA is delivering exactly that.”

Authenticate APAC 2026 guests are welcome to visit RSA at booth K1 to see how RSA solutions can stop phishing for every user, everywhere.

FIDO Alliance case study details how RSA went passwordless

Claiming that RSA passwordless solutions support every user, in every environment, every time isn’t a marketing claim or aspiration. Instead, it describes how RSA itself operates today. In 2024, RSA set a goal of deploying 100% passwordless authentication for its own global workforce using its own RSA® ID Plus identity and access management (IAM) platform. The full story of that deployment, including the architectural decisions, change management lessons, and technical capabilities that accelerated the RSA move to passwordless is documented in a case study published by the FIDO Alliance: Inside RSA: Deploying FIDO and Passwordless Solutions at Scale.

Live speaking session: Workforce Authentication in the Era of Passkeys

RSA Head of UX Philip Corriveau will present at Authenticate APAC 2026 on Wednesday, June 3 at 9:30 AM SGT in the Grand Ballroom. His session, “Workforce Authentication in the Era of Passkeys-A FIDO Alliance Perspective,” will address the state of workforce passkey deployment. Corriveau will detail a six-phase deployment framework—from securing leadership buy-in and defining architecture through mandatory enforcement and post-rollout maintenance—covering the decisions, challenges, and behavioral dynamics that determine whether an organization’s passwordless mandate succeeds or stalls.