Descope
Governance, Risk & Compliance
Overview
Descope is a passwordless authentication and customer identity and access management platform that helps organizations implement passwordless login flows without writing code. It supports FIDO2, passkeys, biometric authentication, magic links, and social login, providing frictionless authentication experiences for users. The platform provides adaptive authentication, session management, and identity orchestration, enabling organizations to reduce reliance on passwords and protect against phishing and credential-based attacks.
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Deployment
- SaaS (vendor-hosted), API / SDK
- Regions served
- Global
- Categories
- Subscription, Software & technology, Cyber threat detection & response, API / SDK, Predictive / classical ML, Freemium, Horizontal platform, SaaS (vendor-hosted), Identity & access security, Governance, Risk & Compliance, Enterprise / custom quote
- Last updated
- 2 October 2026
- Published
- 2 October 2026
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Deployment options
Data sources & provenance
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- Data quality
- Data quality: Editorially Reviewed
- Primary source
- descope.com
- Sources cited
- 2
- Last reviewed
- 27 September 2026
- Last updated
- 2 October 2026
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