Simpler, Stronger
Authentication

Solving the World's Password Problem

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CNBC Features FIDO

Here’s why Google, Apple and Microsoft think it’s time to kill the password

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FIDO Authenticate

Join us for Authenticate, the first FIDO conference, this November in Seattle!

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FIDO Hackathon

The FIDO Alliance announces its 2020 FIDO Hackathon: Goodbye Password Challenge in Korea

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FIDO Explained

A quick look at FIDO authentication

Who’s Using FIDO

Leading organizations around the world have deployed FIDO authentication to their employees and users, reducing their security risks and improving user experience.

What They’re Saying

The FIDO Alliance Board of Directors is an all-star line-up of global technology leaders, service providers, and solution vendors.

“As the lines between offline and online commerce blur, addressing identity verification for managing payments is pivotal to the future of the financial industry Partnering with experts in FIDO will enable American Express and the financial industry to pave the path to more secure payments.”

Upendra Mardikar

Vice President, Security Strategy, Architecture & Engineering

“Joining the FIDO Alliance is a great way to increase industry momentum around open standards for strong authentication. We look forward to continuing our current development work on strong, universal second-factor tokens as part of a new FIDO Alliance working group.”

Sam Srinivas

Product Management Director for Information Security

“In today’s digital world, our customers expect to do their banking the way they want, when they want and in a consistent, reliable, clear and easy way. ING’s strategy is built on providing our customers with access anytime, anywhere in a clear and easy way. Yet, security is paramount and cannot be compromised. We support FIDO authentication and its advancement globally, because it’s an open, scalable and interoperable framework that can support the current and future authentication needs of our customers and the industry.”

Rob Bening

Chief Information Security Officer

“Samsung is driving the global security agenda for mobile and IoT devices, making safe and secure connected living possible and is committed to securing any element of our connected world so that consumers and businesses can safely experience the full benefits of mobility and the Internet of Things. It is crucial to authenticate the parties becoming connected and successful authentication builds a trusted environment. As FIDO standards offer users an improved secure experience in authentication and protect the privacy of the user by keeping users’ biometric data within the secure area on the user device, the FIDO mechanisms can be instrumental to enable our devices to connect each other with high confidence and improved user experience in a secure manner.”

Dr. Henry Lee

Senior Vice President of Mobile Security

Changing the Nature of Authentication

A global collaboration driving the world to move beyond passwords

Worldwide Events

Join the FIDO Alliance at one of our upcoming events to learn more about the technology, hear first-hand about deployments and best practices for your own implementation.

FIDO In The News

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March 9, 2020

CNET: Dump your passwords, improve your security. Really

March 3, 2020

ComputerWorld: FIDO Alliance and the future of passwords

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