Passkey champions to develop certification profile as focus turns to digital credentials
At the annual Identity Identity & Policy Forum, it’s a tradition for Andrew Shikiar, CEO of the FIDO Alliance, to reflect on his predictions from the previous year and offer predictions for the coming one. 2025 was a pivotal year for FIDO: passkeys – FIDO’s raison d’etre in recent years – finally became a mainstream authentication method, marking a long-term win for the Alliance.
In his keynote, FIDO Alliance CEO Andrew Shikiar estimates over 4 billion passkeys are now being used to secure sign-ins around the world. “That’s a massive number considering we introduced passkeys in 2022.”
Shikiar’s speech runs through his record on predictions he made at the beginning of 2025, and comes out looking pretty clairvoyant. Major banks have deployed passkeys. “I stood here last year and said 2025 will be the year of passkeys and banking,” Shikiar says. “I was kind of eating my socks on that until around Q4, when all of a sudden basically every major bank in the U.S. passkeys for sign-up.”
