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FIDO Alliance
The FIDO Alliance is an industry consortium launched in February 2013 to address the lack of interoperability among strong authentication devices and the problems users face creating and remembering multiple usernames and passwords. Nok Nok Labs, PayPal and Lenovo were among the founders.
FIDO Alliance also offers the Biometric Component Certification Program – the first such program for the industry at large. The program utilizes accredited independent labs to certify that biometric subcomponents meet globally recognized performance standards for biometric recognition performance and Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) and are fit for commercial use.
FIDO Alliance Biometrics News
Avast pitches decentralized digital ID and FIDO integration at Authenticate 2022
An Authenticate 2022 session Wednesday explored the open standards and cryptography behind self-sovereign identity (SSI) and how they can complement…
| Oct 20, 2022 | Highly scalable biometric injection spoof attacks on the wayAn executive in the biometric face verification sector may have thought he would slay when telling a FIDO Alliance conference… |
| Oct 20, 2022 | Mastercard digital identity network plans detailed at Authenticate 2022“My business is actually responsible for building a new network for Mastercard: the identity network,” Mastercard SVP of Digital Identity… |
| Oct 19, 2022 | Sound method for measuring biometric bias important, tricky, and in progressImportant work on measuring biometric bias is waiting, once methods for how to measure it are worked out, says Stephanie… |
| Oct 19, 2022 | Even with tepid growth, passwordless authentication gets deployed in unproductive waysA pair of vendor surveys just out offer little in the way of hope for rapid adoption of identity authentication… |
| Oct 18, 2022 | NIST turns to the individual’s roles and responsibilities in digital ID guidance updateThe biggest changes to the U.S. government’s guidance for digital identity programs largely focuses on the smaller component in the… |
| Oct 14, 2022 | FIDO debuts document authenticity certification for mobile and remote ID verificationThe FIDO Alliance has introduced a new certification program to address the rising need for more robust and straightforward online… |
| Sep 5, 2022 | Avast joins FIDO Alliance, groups for decentralized and trusted digital IDAvast’s plans for participation in the digital identity ecosystem are gradually becoming clearer, with the consumer cybersecurity provider announcing it… |
| Aug 23, 2022 | SecureAuth IAM authentication platform certified for FIDO2Access management and authentication vendor SecureAuth has reinforced its commitment to interoperable, passwordless technologies by achieving FIDO2 certification standards for… |
| Aug 16, 2022 | US regulator urges MFA and puts banks on notice – not reasonably protecting data is illegalA U.S. consumer finance regulator has published a circular warning that insufficient security for consumer biometric and other personal data… |
| Jul 27, 2022 | VinCSS launches FIDO2 biometric ecosystem at Vietnamese passwordless authentication eventVietnam’s government is throwing its weight behind passwordless authentication to address cybersecurity threats, and hosted an event at which VinCSS… |
| Jul 14, 2022 | 2 big dates coming up fast for international biometrics communityOrganizers of this fall’s International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group has issued a call for papers, with submissions… |
| Jul 6, 2022 | BixeLab shows off biometrics testing capabilities, unveils training courses in live launchBixeLab opened its biometrics test laboratory in Australia at a time when COVID-19 restrictions generally prevented people from visiting or… |
| Jun 30, 2022 | iBeta report compares ISO and FIDO standards for biometric presentation attack testingBiometrics test lab iBeta published a new report comparing the effectiveness of the ISO 30107 and FIDO protocols in relation… |
| Jun 23, 2022 | VinCSS launches FIDO2 biometric password manager as Alliance issues security key guidanceVinCSS has launched a FIDO2 platform for passwordless password management with biometrics, which the company claims is the first of… |
| Jun 7, 2022 | Series of passwordless authentication tools and partnerships unveiledApple is making good on its recent statements about the virtue and attainability of no-password biometric credentials. Passkeys for MacOS… |
| May 31, 2022 | Researchers claim design flaws with FIDO2 passwordless authentication standardA team of researchers have published a paper in the Cryptology ePrint Archive of the International Association for Cryptologic Research… |
| May 10, 2022 | Biometrics use cases, ethics to be examined in webinars from Oosto, Simprints, EAB, FIDO AllianceA variety of new webinars focusing on different applications of and issues around biometric technologies have been announced by Oosto,… |
| May 6, 2022 | Buenos Aires planning ambitious decentralized digital identity system with biometricsThe Argentinian capital Buenos Aires is planning to establish a decentralized digital identity platform including biometrics for public and private… |
| May 5, 2022 | Apple, Google, Microsoft increase FIDO, W3C support to widen passwordless sign-inApple, Google and Microsoft will work together to accelerate acceptance of a passwordless sign-in standard set by the FIDO Alliance… |
FIDO Alliance Industry Insights
Implementing passwordless in device-restricted environments
By Rohan Pinto, CTO for 1Kosmos The increasing reliance on mobile devices for implementing secure, passwordless authentication in workplace settings…
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| FIDO2 makes the Internet more secure, but not everyone is convinced |
Biometrics Explainers by FIDO Alliance
Explainer: Multi-factor authentication
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a layer of security that ensures a person provides two or more pieces of information to…
