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...

Brett McDowell, executive director, FIDO Alliance Many private and public sector organizations look to NIST’s Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, first published in February 2014, as a guide to building a solid cybersecurity strategy. But one critical piece of any...

Brett McDowell, executive director, FIDO Alliance With a new President about to take office in the U.S., it is still unclear what specific actions his administration will take to improve cybersecurity. According to a new report published late last week by a prestigious, non-partisan commission...

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...

This is a guest post by Jeremy Grant, Managing Director at The Chertoff Group.  Grant leads The Chertoff Group's identity practice and is an advisor to the FIDO Alliance. From the buzz in the technology press over the last two weeks, one might think that end times are nigh in the world of...

By Brett McDowell, executive director of the FIDO Alliance, with Paul Grassi, senior standards and technology advisor, NIST The proliferation of mobile devices leaves U.S. government agencies with a tough balancing act between security, usability and effectively performing their missions. How...

-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...