The Next Web (TNW) talks to Andrew Shikiar, executive director and chief marketing officer of the FIDO Alliance, and its partner and hardware security key maker Yubico, about authentication without passwords through the FIDO2 standard. But before TNW looks at what companies are doing to allow users to login to services in different ways, they take a look at what FIDO2 is and how it works.


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