It was an eventful Day One at the Money20/20 conference, with news to share on how FIDO Authentication has quickly become the go-to standard for secure and easy commerce. Here are the latest developments from yesterday: Google Demonstrates Seamless Payments with W3C and FIDO Standards There is no...

Brett McDowell, executive director, FIDO Alliance Should screen scraping be allowed, even as a fallback option, under Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2)? The FIDO Alliance has been closely observing the discussions on this topic between the European Commission (EC) and European Banking Authority...

Brett McDowell, executive director, FIDO Alliance Last week, Aetna’s Chief Security Officer Jim Routh told the Wall Street Journal about his organization’s pioneering efforts to improve security and usability of its online services for its customers, partners and employees. A core component of...

Brett McDowell, executive director, FIDO Alliance The U.K. government is taking cyber defense seriously, announcing last week that it will invest £1.9 billion ($2.3 billion) in cybersecurity over the next five years. In the 84-page UK National Cyber Security Strategy, the U.K. government lays...

Brett McDowell, Executive Director The FIDO Alliance is very happy to announce that BC Card has been appointed to our Board of Directors. Right now, we’re seeing a great deal of innovation in authentication and biometrics coming out of Korea, and with that is coming a lot of demand for FIDO...

-Brett McDowell, Executive Director In a first example of many where the FIDO Alliance is going to be engaging policy makers on the topic of authentication, we submitted comments to the European Banking Authority (EBA) on their Discussion Paper on future Draft Regulatory Technical Standards on...

It’s been just 287 days since the FIDO Alliance published its first Proposed Standards for universal strong authentication to the world.  That’s the short distance between a finished protocol and several marquee deployments of these new technologies from major companies around the world...