The most important Internet security group you’ve never heard of
You can be forgiven if the FIDO Alliance is not on your radar screen. It was launched barely 18 months ago, to help solve the “password crisis” online; but it’s already proven to be one of most influential security bodies we’ve yet seen.
The typical Internet user has dozens of accounts and passwords. Not only are they a pain in the rear, poor passwords practices are increasingly implicated in fraud and terrible misadventures like the recent “iCloud Hack” which exposed celebrities’ personal details.
With so many of our assets, our business and our daily lives happening in cyberspace, we desperately need better ways to prove who we are online – and even more importantly, prove what we are entitled to do there. The FIDO Alliance is a new consortium of identity management vendors, product companies and service providers working on strong authentication standards. FIDO’s vision is to tap the powers of smart devices — smart phones today and wearables tomorrow — to log users on to online services more securely and more conveniently.
