Systems and methods for protecting passwords

The disclosed computer-implemented method for protecting passwords may include (i) intercepting network traffic indicating an attempted login procedure at a workload device to login to a protected resource, (ii) prompting a user, in response to intercepting the network traffic, and at an authentication device that has been registered to the user, to indicate whether to approve the attempted login procedure, (iii) collecting, at the authentication device, a credential for the attempted login procedure that was stored in a protected vault of the authentication device, (iv) providing, by the authentication device to the workload device, an authentication decision based on the collected credential, and (v) injecting, at the workload device, the authentication decision into a browser session to enable the user to complete the attempted login procedure to login to the protected resource. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.