Board Member Perspectives

“Providing our customers with a simple, secure and transparent digital authentication experience that is consistent across devices and applications is a top priority for us in this mobile age. With our experience, influence and background, we are proud to become a board member of the FIDO Alliance and continue to develop secure authentication solutions for the healthcare industry that can reduce the reliance on the use of insecure solutions that are based on username and passwords.”

 Jim Routh, Chief Security Officer, Aetna

“Amazon’s mission is to be Earth’s most customer-centric company. Customer trust has always been at the center of every decision we make, especially in securing customer information. As an early innovator in ecommerce, Amazon had to blaze our own trail in creating a positive ecommerce experience for customers, while also securing transactions to protect customers and earn and maintain their trust. We look forward to working with other industry leaders on a customer-focused approach to authentication.”

Amazon

“As the lines between offline and online commerce blur, addressing identity verification for managing payments is pivotal to the future of the financial industry. Partnering with experts in FIDO will enable American Express and the financial industry to pave the path to more secure payments.”

Upendra Mardikar, Vice President, Security Strategy, Architecture & Engineering at American Express

“Arm is supportive of FIDO’s vision of a world beyond passwords and our security architecture can help to turn that into reality. As a board member we want to push for the universal adoption of FIDO authentication as it will allow people to securely connect to the services they care about in a frictionless way that links multiple web-based services with a diverse range of devices. Biometrics are already being used to authorize financial transactions from a smartphone, and it’s easy to see how technology such as Arm® TrustZone® technology-based Trusted Execution Environment can be used with FIDO standards to move beyond passwords into a world where authentication methods are interoperable. The key is ensuring that embedded security builds on appropriate hardware and software that is well integrated so it’s fit for purpose and cost-effective.”

Rob Coombs, Director of Security Marketing, Arm

“We are committed to providing our customers with the latest advancements in mobile device authentication. Using the FIDO standard in the authentication process for the mobile banking app makes it easier and faster for our customers to access their information in a secure manner.”

Hari Gopalkrishnan, Client Facing Platforms Technology Executive,  Bank of America

“Providing our customers with a simple, convenient, and secure digital life experience is a top priority for us during this BYOD generation due to secure and reliable authentication issues across multiple devices and access points. With our influence and background, we are proud to become a board member of the FIDO Alliance and continue to develop simpler and more secure authentication solutions that over time can eliminate the reliance on passwords.”

Steve Ro, Chairman and CEO of Egis

“Dedicated commitment to protect identity and secure access to online applications has been our focus since the company was established in 1998. With the Cloud and the Internet of Everything upon us, it is more important than ever to secure a connected world through reliable identification. By joining FIDO Alliance as a Board member, we can now accelerate our vision and continue our dedication to the FIDO specifications through the targeted development and production of FIDO-enabled computing devices for strong user authentication that meet the rapidly changing requirements of the industry and reduce the problems associated with passwords.”

Huang Yu, CEO and Founder, Feitian Technologies

“User authentication has been at the heart of Gemalto’s offering since the beginning. We aim to deploy secure and convenient solutions to our banking, government, enterprise, telecom and IOT customers. We share the same goal as the FIDO Alliance, with which we are happy to collaborate to help with the deployment of standard authentication solutions, bringing our expertise in cryptography, mobile security and biometry.”

Bertrand Knopf, EVP Banking & Payment, Gemalto

“Joining the FIDO Alliance is a great way to increase industry momentum around open standards for strong authentication. We look forward to continuing our current development work on strong, universal second-factor tokens as part of a new FIDO Alliance working group.”

Sam Srinivas, Product Management Director for Information Security, Google

“HYPR believes that FIDO standards provide enterprises with a powerful framework for securing their customers and employees without the use of passwords and shared secrets. True password-less authentication can provide tremendous benefits to digital transformation initiatives as well as accelerate enterprise cloud transformation projects by making end-users immune to phishing and account takeover. Over the years, we have worked closely with our partners to provide a technological bridge to support these initiatives and look forward to working with the FIDO board in a greater capacity to share and learn so that we can accelerate adoption and improve security internet-wide.”

Bojan Simic, Chief Technology Officer and Cofounder, HYPR

“OT-Morpho is now IDEMIA, the global leader in trusted identities for an increasingly digital world, with the ambition to empower citizens and consumers alike to interact, pay, connect, travel and vote in ways that are now possible in a connected environment. Securing our identity has become mission critical in the world we live in today. By standing for Augmented Identity, we reinvent the way we think, produce, use and protect this asset, whether for individuals or for objects. We ensure privacy and trust as well as guarantee secure, authenticated and verifiable transactions for international clients from Financial, Telecom, Identity, Security and IoT sectors. With close to €3bn in revenues, IDEMIA is the result of the merger between OT (Oberthur Technologies) and Safran Identity & Security (Morpho). This new company counts 14,000 employees of more than 80 nationalities and serves clients in 180 countries.”

“As a founding member of the FIDO Alliance, Infineon is delighted to become a member of the Board. With active participation by leaders from multiple business segments, the FIDO Alliance is succeeding in its mission of making the connected world safer for both businesses and consumers by assuring that security measures are easy to use.”

Joerg Borchert, Vice President, Chip Card and Security,  Infineon Technologies Americas Corp

“In today’s digital world, our customers expect to do their banking the way they want, when they want and in a consistent, reliable, clear and easy way. ING’s strategy is built on providing our customers access anytime, anywhere in a clear and easy way. Yet, security is paramount and cannot be compromised. We support FIDO authentication and its advancement globally, because it’s an open, scalable and interoperable framework that can support the current and future authentication needs of our customers and the industry.”

Rob Bening, Chief Information Security Officer, ING Bank. “

“As our digital lives become increasingly personal and connected, maintaining secure, reliable authentication across multiple devices and access points is becoming completely unwieldy. We are excited to collaborate with other industry leaders in the FIDO Alliance to develop simpler and more secure solutions to authenticate users and to eliminate the need for passwords over time. By applying our deep expertise and resources in computing platforms, security and software, we believe we can have a tremendous impact in helping the industry solve the password problem which will greatly benefit our customers.”

Mark Hocking, Vice President and General Manager of Safe Identity, Intel Security

“Lenovo products have earned a reputation for outstanding security features and designs. Recognizing that our customers wanted more than just passwords for authentication, we began shipping ThinkPad PCs with integrated fingerprint readers nearly a decade ago. We are excited about the new FIDO standard because it enhances both security and convenience, enabling biometric and other forms of authentication to take place directly between the user and the service that he or she is trying to use.”

Mark Cohen, Vice President and General Manager, Ecosystem and Monetization, Lenovo

“We look forward to contributing to the FIDO Alliance at the board level, as LINE is dedicated to improving security and convenience for our users and the world. We will accomplish this by implementing the password-less authentication methods proposed by FIDO Alliance, not only for the main LINE messaging app and other existing apps, but also for future IoT and other services. By implementing FIDO authentication methods into LINE and other applications, we expect to resolve various security and privacy concerns, including phishing, account hijacking, and unauthorized use of services, stemming from existing password authentication systems.”

Takesh Nakayama, CPO/CISO, LINE Corporation

“As consumers continue to interact across smarter devices and new technologies beyond the traditional plastic card, we’re committed to continue to deliver simpler, better and more secure payment experiences. We believe our involvement with the FIDO Alliance, as well as other activities across the industry, will help deliver strong security for consumers, merchants and issuers without impacting the consumer buying experience.”

 Ed McLaughlin, Chief Emerging Payments Officer, MasterCard

“Microsoft has a track record of unwavering commitment to security and significant contributions to open standards organizations. Joining the FIDO Alliance board of directors is a logical step for us as a way to serve our customers and the community. As a contributor to the FIDO Alliance working groups on next generation authentication, we look forward to furthering our innovation and thought leadership in the identity space.”

David Treadwell, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft

“Nok Nok Labs is focused on removing complexity from strong authentication and to improve the consumer experience. The goal has been to create an experience for both sides of the transaction that was strong, simple and scalable. The driving motivation behind both the FIDO Alliance and Nok Nok Labs was to solve one of the great problems of modern computing – our reliance on insecure passwords. As a founding member of the FIDO Alliance, Nok Nok is proud to be delivering FIDO Certified servers and clients that enable deploying organizations to leverage FIDO to authenticate using any device, any application and any authenticator.”

Ramesh Kesanupalli, Founder of Nok Nok Labs and FIDO visionary

“By eliminating passwords with FIDO standards, we are able to deliver a superior end-user experience that includes enhanced security features; we will also be able to introduce innovative new services and product offerings that can utilize standards-based platforms and devices. After reviewing the different approaches to authentication available today, we settled on the FIDO standards as the right strategy for solving the current and future authentication needs of our customers. Since the FIDO technology is open standard anyone will be able to utilize, we look forward to creating the FIDO eco-system together with FIDO Alliance.”

Seiji Maruyama, Senior Vice President, Managing Director of Product Department, NTT DOCOMO, INC

“OneSpan helps organizations make bold digital transformation by establishing trust in people’s identities, devices and transactions using proven technologies and implementation practices honed from decades working with security-conscious organizations. We do this in part thanks to our relationship with FIDO, which is helping set the standards for our emerging authentication products while unifying authentication technology globally. As a board member and contributor to FIDO Alliance working groups, OneSpan looks to its FIDO relationship to help further its trusted identity strategy, technology innovation and industry leadership.”

Scott Clements, CEO, OneSpan 

“At PayPal the security of our customer’s personal and financial information is our top priority. Given that strong authentication is key to protecting access to sensitive information, we co-founded the FIDO Alliance to help innovate in this area. We believe that the standards and best practices developed within the Alliance are providing interoperable and stronger authentication for our customers, making the authentication process simpler for end users, and more scalable across the industry.”

J. Trent Adams, Director of Ecosystem Security, PayPal

“Our customers, in industries ranging from smartphones and tablets, to automobiles and wearables, have come to count on Qualcomm® Security Solutions, integrated within our Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ processors and Qualcomm® Gobi™ modems, to help secure their consumer devices. Like many of our customers, we are concerned about user privacy, the inadequacy of existing password methods of authentication and the lack of interoperability among strong authentication devices. So we’re proud to be working with our fellow FIDO Alliance board members to develop new, scalable standards that help people to more securely and easily connect to online services.”

Raj Talluri, Senior Vice President, Product Management, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc

“Since our company’s founding, Raonsecure has been devoted to improving customer experience and security for mobile and PC online application, especially in the financial sector. We are very pleased to be joining the FIDO Alliance board, where we may leverage our experience and background in endpoint security to contribute to the future of the FIDO specification for strong authentication. By cooperating to evolve the FIDO ecosystem, we work to create a lasting legacy of enhanced privacy and security online for the entire world.”

Dongpyo Hong, Chief Alliance Officer, Raonsecure Co. Ltd

“RSA has taken a leading role in authentication since its inception. We join the FIDO Alliance as a Board Member to continue our leadership and join other industry leaders in developing authentication that delivers choice and interoperability with privacy to meet the needs of diverse user populations. RSA’s resources and expertise in authentication will serve our customers and the FIDO community as we protect next generation access with higher levels of user convenience.”

Salah Machani, Senior Director of Technology, RSA

“Samsung is driving the global security agenda for mobile and IoT devices, making safe and secure connected living possible and is committed to securing any element of our connected world so that consumers and businesses can safely experience the full benefits of mobility and the Internet of Things. It is crucial to authenticate the parties becoming connected and successful authentication builds a trusted environment. As FIDO standards offer users an improved secure experience in authentication and protect the privacy of the user by keeping users’ biometric data within the secure area on the user device, the FIDO mechanisms can be instrumental to enable our devices to connect each other with high confidence and improved user experience in a secure manner.”

Dr. Henry Lee, Senior Vice President of Mobile Security, Samsung Electronics

“As a founding member of the FIDO Alliance, we are dedicated to developing open, scalable and interoperable standards that accelerate the adoption of mobile payments, enhance the security of devices and online transactions, and reduce the reliance on passwords. Our hardware and software components enable FIDO-compliant biometric authentication in our customers’ smartphones, tablets, notebooks, and PC peripherals.”

Anthony Gioeli, VP of Marketing, Synaptics Biometrics Product Division

“USAA is committed to ensuring the trust and confidence of its membership by providing secure digital experiences across all channels. We support solutions that can help simplify and secure our members’ financial transactions while keeping cyber theft at bay.”

Wil Bennett, Chief Information Security Officer

“Advancing adoption of open industry standards reflects VMware’s core value of giving back to communities of all types. Supporting the FIDO Alliance is one way VMware shows its commitment in the security industry. Together we are bringing an open industry standard to multi-factor authentication, so that organizations and their employees have more choice in how they maintain trust in their working environments.”

Alex Tosheff, Chief Security Officer, VMware

“As we reimagine the future of personal finance and authentication, security is at the heart of everything we do,” said Adam Vancini, head of authentication, Wells Fargo Virtual Channels. “Leveraging our established leadership in consumer authentication, we are proud to participate on the FIDO Alliance Board to work together across industries and help develop secure, innovative and convenient solutions that our customers have come to expect.”

“Yubico was founded with the same mission as the FIDO Alliance; to make strong two-factor authentication easy and affordable for everyone. We are proud to serve as a board member of the FIDO Alliance, to work closely with the Internet thought leaders and contribute to FIDO open authentication standards.” 

Stina Ehrensvard, Founder and CEO, Yubico