What is the FIDO Alliance? - Revolutionizing Authentication

The FIDO Alliance is an organization formed in 2013, consisting of key players across various sectors such as technology, finance, and government. Its mission is to reduce the global reliance on passwords by promoting the adoption of open, interoperable authentication standards, known as FIDO authentication.

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• The Alliance includes influential companies such as Amazon, Facebook, and Visa, all working together to advance and adopt FIDO standards globally.
• Members contribute to shaping the technical specifications and policies that enhance user authentication methods across platforms.

• FIDO standards, including FIDO2, use public key cryptography to provide stronger and simpler user authentication.
• These standards support biometric authentications such as fingerprints and facial recognition, and devices like security keys.

• FIDO authentication helps protect user privacy by ensuring that biometric data and private keys remain on the user’s device.
• Enhances security across the web by making authentication resistant to phishing and other common cyber threats.

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To develop and promote authentication standards that help reduce the world’s reliance on passwords by shifting to more secure, simple, and fast authentication methods.

By designing authentication standards that ensure users' personal data, such as biometrics, do not leave their devices, thereby not exposing them to potential breaches.

FIDO2 is the latest set of standards developed by the FIDO Alliance, enhancing the web authentication process with stronger security protocols like WebAuthn and CTAP.

The FIDO Alliance collaborates with global industry partners and policymakers to align and integrate its authentication standards with broader security and privacy regulations like GDPR and PSD2.