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The FIDO Alliance has weighed in on the NIST’s upcoming revisions to its Digital Identity Guidelines. The NIST put out a call for comments back in June, and indicated that the feedback it received would help it construct its Digital Identity Guideline version SP 800-63-4. In its comments, the Alliance focused primarily on authentication, which […]
Crayonic is the latest company to become part of the FIDO Alliance. The Dutch decentralized identity specialist joins the Alliance as an Associate Member, and will work to reduce the need for passwords in identity and authentication applications. In that regard, Crayonic indicated that it will release a new Cryonic KeyVault device based on FIDO […]
FIDO Alliance Executive Director Andrew Shikiar is drawing a distinction between facial recognition and facial authentication in a new article on TechTalks. In doing so, he argues that the use of on-device facial authentication is much safer and far less problematic than the unmonitored use of facial recognition in large-scale mass surveillance systems. The article […]
The inaugural Authenticate conference will officially be a virtual event. The FIDO Alliance originally scheduled the conference for the first weekend of June in Seattle, but pushed it back to November in the hopes that the event would still be able to take place in person. Unfortunately, doing so is no longer feasible due to […]
Toronto-based telecom startup Data On Tap Inc. has announced that it has formed a partnership with Silicon Valley authentication company LoginID that will allow it to introduce FIDO2 and UAF certified biometric authentication for its dotmobile customers. dotmobile, which is described by Data On Tap as “a smart tiny telecom designed to be affordable and […]
FIDO Alliance Executive Director Andrew Shikiar has provided a progress update on the organization’s ongoing mission to eliminate the need for passwords. In a new video interview with the Information Security Media Group, he explains that FIDO is now turning its attention to websites and encouraging web developers to offer support for FIDO2 protocols in […]
FindBiometrics and Money20/20 Europe present “Building Invincible Trust Chains With Strong Authentication and ID Verification.” The engaging discussion spans a range of identity and authentication technologies, including facial recognition, liveness detection, behavioral analytics, and document reading, among others. Watch the full recording of this expert financial biometrics webinar: Kicking off with a special presentation from […]
ForgeRock has enabled passwordless authentication for clients using its ForgeRock Identity Cloud and ForgeRock Identity Platform. The new feature has been dubbed ForgeRock Go, and it is being released as part of the Intelligent Access solution that is available through both the Identity Platform and the Identity Cloud. ForgeRock Go will leverage the authentication features […]
FindBiometrics is celebrating the Future of Finance: a special summer event presented in association with our financial industry events partner Money20/20 Europe. That is why on this episode of ID Talk we are proud to present podcast co-host Susan Stover’s interview with Phillip Dunkelberger, President and CEO of Nok Nok Labs. The interview begins on […]
The FIDO Alliance has launched a new website to teach consumers about the security benefits of FIDO authentication technology. The organization has also unveiled a new ‘I-Mark’ symbol that other organizations can display to indicate that their authentication procedures are compliant with the latest FIDO standards. “FIDO standards are reaching a tipping point with widespread […]
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