Dashlane, the provider of an eponymous password management platform, has joined the FIDO Alliance, the company has announced.
Membership in the cross-industry consortium was a long time coming. Dashlane was the first password manger to embrace FIDO’s U2F standard, and the first to offer FIDO-based authentication via Yubico’s USB U2F devices. As Dashlane CEO Emmanuel Schalit put it in a statement, FIDO’s are security standards “that Dashlane supports in both theory and practice.”
Commenting on the company’s new membership, FIDO Alliance Executive Director Brett McDowell said that “[w]hen a leading mass market credential management company like Dashlane joins the Alliance it sends a message to the rest of the market” about the growing consensus around FIDO standards.
Dashlane wasn’t just an early adopter of FIDO authentication standards; the app was also quick to embrace Android Marshmallow’s fingerprint scanning support when it arrived in 2015, complementing support already in place for the iPhone’s Touch ID biometric authentication system.
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February 10, 2017 – by Alex Perala
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