FIDO Alliance Executive Director Brett McDowell tells PaymentsSource that while there is no single solution to combat fraud in all environments, the Alliance recommends the payments industry use high-assurance strong authentication, which leverages two or more factors to verify the customer, with one of those utilizing public key cryptography.


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