2020-020-Andrew Shikiar - FIDO Alliance - making Cybersecurity more secure

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Andrew Shikiar, executive director and CMO of the (Fast IDentity Online) FIDO Alliance.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What is FIDO?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">open industry association launched in February 2013 whose mission is to develop and promote</span> <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authentication"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">authentication</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">standards that help reduce the world’s over-reliance on</span> <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">passwords</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. FIDO addresses the lack of interoperability among</span> <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_authentication"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">strong authentication</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">devices and reduces the problems users face creating and remembering multiple usernames and passwords.”</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Did any one event precipitate creation of the FIDO alliance?</span></p> <p><br /> <br /></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">UAF=</span> <a href= "https://fidoalliance.org/specs/fido-uaf-v1.2-rd-20171128/fido-uaf-protocol-v1.2-rd-20171128.html"> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://fidoalliance.org/specs/fido-uaf-v1.2-rd-20171128/fido-uaf-protocol-v1.2-rd-20171128.html</span></a></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">U2F =</span> <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_2nd_Factor"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_2nd_Factor</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">(yubikeys, tokens)</span></p> <p> </p> <p><a href= "https://landing.google.com/advancedprotection/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://landing.google.com/advancedprotection/</span></a></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">FIDO supports biometri