ArsTechnica reports that the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and FIDO Alliance announced that a new spec, WebAuthn (“Web Authentication”) has been promoted to the Candidate Recommendation stage, the penultimate stage in the web standards process.


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ComputerWeekly: Data protection practices still poor, survey shows

FIDO Alliance CMO Andrew Shikiar tells ComputerWeekly that the vast majority of breaches are caused…

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ComputerWeekly: Time to deploy strong authentication, says FIDO

In this ComputerWeekly story, FIDO Alliance CMO Andrew Shikiar explains that with the tools required…

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Threatpost: Threatpost Survey Says: 2FA is Just Fine, But Go Ahead and Kill SMS

In a Threatpost survey on two-factor authentication, 57% of respondents said hardware tokens like FIDO…

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