Microsoft has been trailing the tech for a while, slipping technology from the Fast IDentity Online (FIDO) alliance into Windows 10 back in 2015 and endorsing the FIDO’s Client To Authenticator Protocol (CTAP) protocol along the WebAuthn API earlier this year.


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Dark Reading: FIDO Alliance Appoints Facebook to Board of Directors

Facebook has joined Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Intel and other major influential tech companies to back…

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Spark, CBC Radio: Forget the password. No, really! They’re about to become obsolete

FIDO Executive Director Brett McDowell tells radio host Nora Young how WebAuthn is bringing simpler,…

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The Canadian Press: Death of the password? New web standard trades passcodes for biometrics

The Canadian Press reports that experts are “excited about the prospect of making logins “unphishable””…

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