The internet has enabled humans to reach far beyond their physical constraints. We log into our company from home, use banking services located thousands of miles away, store our photos who knows where in the cloud. How do you trust anyone? In the absence of a trusted entity that can vouch for people (or companies), how do you know that the party on the other side of a transaction really is who they say they are? The harder these questions are to answer and the more important those answers become– the more a given technology will begin to shift towards authentication.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3205168/what-cios-need-to-know-about-authentication.html