The FIDO Alliance came together in 2013 as security pros working at PayPal, Lenovo, and other companies began to get fed up with various password-based security holes. With biometric readers becoming more and more prevalent and a new set of specs that are easy to integrate into standard webpages via JavaScript APIs, our passwordless future may finally be in sight. FIDO Alliance members include some of the biggest names in tech and media, so this initiative has muscle behind it.


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Security Boulevard: Driving Passwordless Adoption with FIDO and Biometric Authentication

The Passwordless Imperative For decades, passwords have been the default mechanism for securing digital access.…

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Biometric Update: Maker builds FIDO2-compliant LionKey USB dongle for passwordless security

With their fiddly and indirect nature, one-time passwords (OTPs) are a curse of modern life.…

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Cybersecurity Market: Bitwarden Doubles Down on Identity Security as Passwords Finally Start to Lose Their Grip

Bitwarden’s latest round of product updates reads less like a feature dump and more like…

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