Momentum for FIDO Authentication Leads Evolution Beyond Passwords - Seite 2

These latest certifications include the first FIDO Certified products that support Bluetooth® for wireless strong authentication. With these products, the Bluetooth authenticator needs only to be near a Bluetooth-enabled device for the user to be strongly authenticated to web apps on that device.

More details on the latest FIDO Certified products and updates to the program are the focus of a June 23^rd FIDO Alliance webinar at 2 pm EDT. To register, visit https://fidoalliance.org/events/fido_certification_validating_next_generation_auth/.

FIDO authentication is increasingly available for online authentication.
FIDO authentication is now enabled on devices from the top five global handset manufacturers. Additionally, service providers including Google, PayPal, Samsung, Bank of America, NTT DOCOMO, Dropbox, GitHub and GOV.UK Verify have made FIDO authentication available to protect hundreds of millions of end-users' desktop and mobile apps, while RSA and eBay are among the many companies that have launched FIDO Certified solutions to facilitate enterprise and commercial deployments.

Coming soon: Microsoft also will be integrating FIDO into Windows 10 for passwordless authentication, while the FIDO Alliance is working with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to standardize FIDO strong authentication across all web browsers and related web platform infrastructure.

Service providers are realizing the benefits from deploying FIDO.
In a recently-published two-year study of its FIDO deployment with security keys, Google revealed that using FIDO strong authentication is markedly faster than other strong authentication methods, has zero authentication failures, reduces hardware and support costs over one-time password (OTP) tokens, and provides all of the necessary privacy and security protections from phishing and man-in-the-middle attacks.

According to Google, "our users have been very happy with the switch: we received many instances of unsolicited positive feedback."

FIDO strong authentication is simpler than other options.
FIDO authentication is much simpler than remembering all kinds of passwords or other forms of strong authentication. The user simply needs to look at something (iris scan, facial recognition), touch something (fingerprint sensor, security key, wearable), say something (voice recognition) to be securely authenticated to any online service that supports FIDO. For security, FIDO uses public key cryptography and is strongly resistant to phishing, while user credentials and biometric templates are never stored on servers and never leave the user's device.