FIDO Alliance Welcomes NTT DOCOMO to Board of Directors - Seite 2

"Enabling an ecosystem with strong, private, easy-to-use FIDO authentication can be added to the many 'world first' innovations and achievements that NTT DOCOMO can claim," said Brett McDowell, executive director of the FIDO Alliance. "We congratulate NTT DOCOMO on its innovation and position at the forefront of FIDO deployments today. We look forward to working with NTT DOCOMO to take FIDO standards forward and move the world beyond passwords."

"When Michael Barrett and I first started work in 2009 on what would become the FIDO Alliance, we had no idea how it would be received by the wider market," said Ramesh Kesanupalli, Vice President of the FIDO Alliance, and FIDO Visionary & Founder, Nok Nok Labs. "This landmark achievement by NTT DOCOMO -- enabling FIDO certified authentication for their customers and moving an ecosystem in Japan with multiple partners at once -- is a huge step to meeting the original goals we aspired to -- providing simple, strong authentication at Internet scale."

NTT DOCOMO has enabled its FIDO services using solutions from its partners, Nok Nok Labs, Qualcomm, ARM, Samsung, Sharp, and Fujitsu.

About NTT DOCOMO

NTT DOCOMO provides innovative, convenient and secure mobile services that enable smarter living for each customer. The company serves over 65 million mobile customers in Japan via advanced wireless networks, including a nationwide 3G network and one of the world's first commercial LTE networks. Leveraging its unique capabilities as a mobile operator, DOCOMO is a leading developer of cutting-edge technologies for NFC mobile payments, mobile GPS, mobile TV, intuitive mobile assistance, environmental monitoring, smart grids and much more. Overseas, the company provides technical and operational expertise to eight mobile operators and other partner companies. NTT DOCOMO is listed on the Tokyo (9437) and New York (DCM) stock exchanges. Please visit https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/ for more information.

About The FIDO Alliance
The FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance, www.fidoalliance.org, was formed in July 2012 to address the lack of interoperability among strong authentication technologies, and remedy the problems users face with creating and remembering multiple usernames and passwords. The FIDO Alliance is changing the nature of authentication with standards for simpler, stronger authentication that define an open, scalable, interoperable set of mechanisms that reduce reliance on passwords. FIDO authentication is stronger, private, and easier to use when authenticating to online services.

The FIDO Alliance Board of Directors includes leading global organizations: Alibaba Holdings (NYSE: BABA); ARM Holdings plc (LSE: ARM) (NASDAQ: ARMH); Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC); CrucialTec (KRX: 114120); Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS); Google; IdentityX; Lenovo; MasterCard (NYSE: MA); Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT); Nok Nok Labs, Inc.; NTT DOCOMO (NYSE: DCM); NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI); Oberthur Technologies OT; PayPal (NASDAQ: EBAY); Qualcomm, Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM); RSA®; Samsung Electronics, Ltd (KOSCOM: SECL); Synaptics (NASDAQ: SYNA); Visa Inc. (NYSE: V); Yubico.

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