Andrew Shikiar, executive director at the FIDO Alliance, notes: “Businesses recognize the huge potential of IoT and the enormous benefits it can bring to manufacturing, retail, healthcare, transportation, logistics and more. The paradigm needs to shift immediately so we can move IoT technologies ahead with safer, stronger and more secure means of authentication for these important uses in industrial and commercial environments.”


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