FIDO Authentication is the answer to the world’s password problem. Based on free and open standards from the FIDO Alliance, FIDO Authentication enables password-only logins to be replaced with simpler and stronger login experiences across websites and apps.
Supporting the developer community is a priority for the Alliance and a key element to driving market adoption of FIDO Authentication standards. Building upon the FIDO Alliances’s success in Korea over the last two years, we are expanding the challenge program worldwide to engage and empower developers to accelerate service deployment with out-of-box ideas.
Join the exciting passwordless movement by participating in 2021 FIDO Alliance Developer Challenge. Share your experience going passwordless by implementing the FIDO2 WebAuthn API to win prizes and be recognized among the global FIDO community!
Please watch the following video to learn about the outcomes and winners.
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Virtual Developer Challenge Schedule
The FIDO Alliance Developer Challenge program is divided into the following schedule:
| July 9: Registration deadline |
| July 16: Initial screenings & top 20 team cut-off |
| August 27: FIDO2 API implementation |
| September 10: Final evaluations |
| September 17: Announcement of the top 3 winners |
| Late October: Final demo and award ceremony |
*The schedule may change with advance notification.
FIDO Rewards and Opportunities
| FIDO Certification |
| FIDO Giveaways and Awards |
| Authenticate 2021 Speaker Opportunity |
| FIDO-Community Networking |
Anticipated Project Team and Members
The program is open to students, individual developers only or pre-seed stage companies only. The team members must be above the age of majority in the country, state, province or jurisdiction of residence at the time of entry.
For more information, click on the Developer Challenge sub pages at the top left of this page.
Why Passwordless?
The World Economic Forum assesses that cybercrime costs the global economy $2.9 million every minute; about 80% of the attacks targeted passwords. The Gartner Group’s recent research indicates that 20~25% of all helpdesk calls are password reset requests. FIDO Alliance’s recent survey on consumer behavior says that 58% of abandoned online purchases are due to the difficulty of managing passwords.
Although passwords have always been the weakest link in cybersecurity, adaptation of passwordless authentication has been a challenging task.
However, the recent global pandemic has drastically accelerated the willingness of and the need for organizations to embrace passwordless FIDO Authentication. The growing number of devices supporting FIDO coupled with the availability of a public WebAuthn API makes this challenge more addressable than ever before.
