The FIDO Alliance has announced plans for its first Virtual Summit of 2021 and published case studies involving a famous online retailer and a government health authority replacing passwords with biometrics or physical tokens. On March 25th, the first FIDO Alliance 2021 Virtual Summit will delve into ‘Modern Authentication for Financial Services,” which is a leading industry for adoption of digital transformation and advanced authentication systems.


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