Workforce SSO, passwordless by face

The password has a running cost and every organization pays it. Gartner has attributed as much as 20 to 50 percent of help desk volume to password resets, and Forrester has put a single assisted reset at roughly 70 dollars once labor and lost productivity are counted. That is an operating tax on the credential that also happens to be your largest attack surface.

The queue is worse than expensive. It is a documented way in: in 2023 attackers impersonated an employee to the MGM Resorts IT help desk in a single phone call, and the company reported an impact of roughly 100 million dollars. You cannot train your way out of a process whose entire purpose is to help a stranger who says they are locked out.

Rollout is where authentication projects actually die. Per-user enrollment turns a technical change into a scheduling problem, and the last fifteen percent of a workforce takes longer than the first eighty. SenseCrypt inverts the order: face tokens are minted in bulk from the photos your organization already holds in HR records, so an imported employee can sign in the day the batch completes.

Handle the exceptions the ordinary way. Staff with no usable photo on file enroll themselves under an email-domain allow-list and land in exactly the same lifecycle, with the same groups and the same roles as everybody imported.

Clinics, plants, depots and registers run on machines that belong to nobody. That is precisely where device-bound credentials fall apart, because the credential lives on the wrong device, and the workaround ends up being a shared password taped under the counter.

SenseCrypt moves the trust anchor off the workstation entirely. The station never authenticates anybody. It shows a code and waits while the worker's own enrolled phone does the cryptography and the face check, and only then does the session belong to a named person.

SenseCrypt fronts your applications as an ordinary standards-based identity provider, so the integration is work your team already knows and nothing about your app estate has to change shape. There is also no parallel password path to keep alive for stragglers: coverage does not depend on user action, so once the batch is minted the legacy sign-in can be scheduled for retirement rather than left open for the tail.

Be precise about authorization, because this is the part buyers most often get wrong. SenseCrypt computes roles and permissions and emits them in the token or the assertion. Your application enforces them. SenseCrypt itself enforces a default-closed group gate at sign-in and capability checks on the admin console routes, and that is the whole boundary.

• OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0, with PKCE and pushed authorization requests.
• SAML 2.0 with signed assertions, SP-initiated and IdP-initiated.
• SCIM 2.0 for users and groups.
• CIBA for backchannel approvals.
• Roles, groups and attribute release for downstream apps.

Lifecycle is where an identity program is really judged, and the leaver case is the one that gets audited. SenseCrypt provisions over SCIM 2.0 from the directory you already operate, so the source of truth does not move and your joiner process does not acquire a second owner.

The departure path is the part worth reading twice, because it fails closed rather than fading out.

Some operations deserve a second proof: break-glass access, a production change, a payment run. SenseCrypt exposes those as backchannel CIBA checks that your systems start, and the approver answers on their enrolled phone.

Do not picture a tap-to-approve prompt. The push starts the same device-bound face ceremony as a sign-in, so there is nothing for approval fatigue to click through and a stolen phone is still not the approver.