Hypr-State-of-Passwordless-Identity-Assurance-2026.md

**Executive Summary:** The 2026 State of Passwordless Identity Assurance report (commissioned by HYPR and produced by 451 Research) finds organizations moving from awareness to operationalizing identity security: generative and agentic AI are now the top identity security concerns, personalized AI-driven phishing and synthetic-media attacks are rising, passwordless adoption has clarified but stalled at enterprise scale, and identity verification (IDV) is increasingly common yet applied in fragmented, persona-based ways.