Dongpyo Hong, Global PD, Inc; Vice-Chair of FIDO Korea Working Group Last month at the FIDO Seminar in San Francisco, I had the pleasure of speaking to attendees about the latest innovations and adoption trends for FIDO Authentication in Korea, and how Korea leads in the number of companies...

Brett McDowell, Executive Director, FIDO Alliance FIDO Alliance, the world’s largest ecosystem for standards-based, interoperable authentication, today announced that Amazon has joined its board of directors. As more consumers shop online and through internet-connected devices, security...

Andrew Shikiar, Sr. Director of Marketing, FIDO Alliance Last month, the FIDO Alliance was in Tokyo where we hosted a standing-room-only seminar to inform key industry stakeholders of the latest updates around FIDO Authentication and activities in Japan. From the news shared, it’s very clear...

Sony Mobile Xperia™ smartphones from NTT DOCOMO are first devices to market TOKYO, DECEMBER 8, 2017 – The FIDO Alliance, an industry consortium with 250+ member and partner organizations developing open standards for simpler, stronger authentication, announced today that the first FIDOⓇ...

SEOUL, DECEMBER 6, 2017 – The FIDO Alliance announced today the launch of the FIDO Korea Working Group to further accelerate awareness and adoption of the FIDO Authentication standards in the Korean marketplace. FIDO Authentication reduces industry reliance on passwords in favor of interoperable...

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...

Adam Powers, Technical Director, FIDO Alliance The FIDO Alliance is pleased to announce the latest round of companies to complete FIDO certification, bringing the total number of certified products to 383. Companies with newly-certified products announced today include IoTrust Co., Ltd, ROWEM and...

The final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) under the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) mandates that financial institutions require multi-factor authentication for certain scenarios based on transaction amount and fraud level. For a an...

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...

Yuriy Ackermann, Sr. Certification Engineer, FIDO Alliance The FIDO Alliance is  pleased to announce the release of the FIDO U2F version 1.2 specification. This update has been published as a “Proposed Standard” and comes after several months of work by FIDO members. The changes...