FIDO Alliance news stories

FIDO Alliance says the world is closer to not relying on passwords after Apple, Google and Microsoft expands their support for a passwordless sign-in standard.

FIDO Alliance has announced that testing is now available for individuals seeking to become FIDO Certified Professionals.

Aussie cybersecurity company, Haventec, has successfully joined the FIDO Alliance, an international industry association with a focused mission to create authentication standards which reduce over-reliance on passwords.

Businesses should prioritise utilisation of readily available authentication technologies to prevent the ongoing phishing threat.

A new onboarding standard to secure Internet of Things has been created by the FIDO Alliance. 

Since it is practically impossible to avoid using the internet today, all parties are put under increasing pressure to implement better security practice to protect their personal information. 

The real cause of most attacks is not biometrics itself, but the storage of biometrics data in a centralised database.

Google’s Titan security key bundle was launched late last year. It includes USB-A/NFC/BLE keys that can act as a second form of authentication as part of a two-factor authentication process.

Attackers know that sometimes they don’t need to attack the technology – they just need to attack people instead.

FIDO2 is a set of standards that enables easy and secure logins to websites and applications via biometrics, mobile devices and/or FIDO Security Keys.

Major browsers and platforms now have built-in support for the new WebAuthn security standard.

Mobile apps and websites can now leverage FIDO standards to provide a simpler and secure biometric login for over a billion devices supporting Android 7.0+.