Enabling Simple and Trusted Identity Technologies
The FIDO Alliance enables identity technologies that put trust and simplicity at the center of interactions among people, services, and devices.
The Alliance provides a member-driven forum that focuses on:
- Technical Specifications: Creating open, scalable, and interoperable mechanisms to enable simple, secure, privacy-preserving identity technologies, such as phishing-resistant user authentication with passkeys.
- Certification Programs: Developing and managing industry certification programs to ensure the successful worldwide implementation of its specifications and globally-recognized performance criteria.
- Education and Market Adoption Programs: Implementing educational and market adoption initiatives to promote its standards and certifications globally.
Specification Development
The FIDO Alliance has published user authentication specifications to enable phishing-resistant authentication with passkeys, credential exchange, and secure onboarding of edge and IoT devices. Specifications related to digital credentials and agentic authentication and commerce are currently under development. FIDO specifications are open and free for global use.
Certification Programs
The FIDO Alliance has certification programs to measure the compliance of products against FIDO specifications for user authentication and device onboarding, and globally recognized security and performance standards for biometrics and remote identity verification technologies. Certification helps ensure that standards are met and that security and interoperability requirements are upheld worldwide.
Membership
The FIDO Alliance is driven by the hundreds of global tech leaders across enterprise, payments, telecom, government and healthcare that have come together in support of the organization’s mission. Alliance members contribute by influencing the development of FIDO specifications, establishing best practices for deployment of FIDO technologies, and driving global awareness of the Alliance, its mission and the FIDO specifications.
Working Groups
The FIDO Alliance also has member-driven working groups that help to facilitate its mission, including developing specification and certification programs, providing deployment guidance, and driving adoption in various vertical markets and regions.
Industry Engagement
The FIDO Alliance has strong industry engagement through its liaison partnership program and its involvement in policy and government.
The Alliance sees significant value in collaborating with other associations from around the world that share its vision. Learn about the Alliance’s liaison partners, or how to initiate a liaison relationship here.
Through its policy program, the FIDO Alliance engages in meaningful discussion with policymakers around the world on how FIDO specifications offer newer, better options for strong authentication, and the updates to policy necessary to support them. Learn about the Alliance’s role in policy and government here.
Upcoming 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.
