March 20, 2014

FIDO: Pushing International Buy-In

One key factor in efforts to reduce reliance on passwords for authentication will be international acceptance of the FIDO Alliance’s soon-to-be released protocol for advanced authentication, says Michael Barrett, the alliance’s president.

FIDO, which stands for Fast IDentity Online, is a global non-profit organization focused on stronger authentication that now has more than 90 members, but relatively few participants are from outside the U.S., he notes. Getting more involvement in the alliance from companies in Europe and Asia-Pacific will be a priority, “as well as broadening out the kind of vendor constituencies that we have so far,” he adds.

MORE FIDO in the News


Informatik aktuell: FIDO Passkeys 2 – in the future without a password

The FIDO Alliance is committed to making the Internet and...

September 15, 2023

TechRadar: BitWarden adds passwordless SSO

Bitwarden has now added Single Sign-On (SSO) support for trusted...


Smashing Security: 339: Bitcoin boo-boo, deepfakes for good, and time to say goodbye to usernames?

Podcast episode where FIDO Passkeys are mentioned and linked to.


The Green Sheet: The extraordinary life of a payment – Security checkpoints

Andrew Shikiar is quoted in the lead story of The...