We’re finally inching closer to curing our addiction to passwords.

This week the FIDO Alliance put together an online event and posted a series of white papers to try to help businesses that want to move forward with passkeys — digital credentials that don’t require usernames and passwords — to host their first 12-step programs for ridding themselves of the scourge that results in huge holes in cloud cybersecurity protection.

“Passkeys are a superior password replacement,” said Tom Sheffield, senior director of cybersecurity for Target Corp. “And you shouldn’t wait to implement them in your business.” Read more of my analysis for SiliconANGLE here.