FIDO Alliance Welcomes NTT DOCOMO to Board of Directors

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(Marketwired - May 25, 2015) - The FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance (https://www.fidoalliance.org/), an industry consortium launched in 2013 to revolutionize online security with open standards for simpler, stronger authentication, has today announced that NTT DOCOMO has joined the board of directors. With this announcement, DOCOMO becomes the first Mobile Network Operator to join the Board of the world's leading industry body delivering standards for strong authentication online.

The FIDO Alliance is also announcing that NTT DOCOMO is the world's first Mobile Network Operator to deploy FIDO authentication throughout its network, delivering simple, strong authentication for DOCOMO's millions of customers on recently announced mobile devices. DOCOMO's devices and services achieve several milestones for the FIDO Ecosystem with today's announcements, including the first carrier billing system enabled by FIDO authentication, the first federated identity system to integrate FIDO authentication, the first mobile services ecosystem to launch with multiple FIDO Certified devices, and the first mobile device to offer FIDO privacy compliant iris biometric authentication.

"Today is a historic day for the FIDO Alliance, as NTT DOCOMO is not only our newest board member, they are the world's first Mobile Network Operator to deploy FIDO authentication," said FIDO Alliance president Dustin Ingalls. "We enthusiastically welcome NTT DOCOMO to the FIDO Alliance board of directors and recognize their outstanding accomplishment in bringing to market another innovation -- FIDO authentication -- greatly improving their customer experience and end-to-end security."

"By eliminating passwords with FIDO standards, we are able to deliver a superior end-user experience that includes enhanced security features; we will also be able to introduce innovative new services and product offerings that can utilize standards-based platforms and devices," said Seiji Maruyama, Senior Vice President, Managing Director of Product Department, NTT DOCOMO, INC. "After reviewing the different approaches to authentication available today, we settled on the FIDO standards as the right strategy for solving the current and future authentication needs of our customers. Since the FIDO technology is open standard anyone will be able to utilize, we look forward to creating the FIDO eco-system together with FIDO Alliance."