The FIDO Alliance hosted a one-day seminar on “Advancing Authentication, Identity and Payments in Europe.” The seminar gathered many influential leaders and decision-makers to explore Europe’s evolving authentication, identity, and payments landscape. 

Attendees gained insights into the latest developments with FIDO, passkeys, payments, identity verification and digital credentials. 

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The FIDO Alliance and host sponsor Thales recently held a one day seminar on authentication, identity and the road ahead.

Seminar sessions provided an exploration of the current state of authentication for workforce and consumer sign-ins – with a focus on FIDO and passkeys including adoption status and case studies. The seminar also featured discussions on other relevant topics for IAM professionals, such as the latest in attacks and threats, identity verification technology advances, and post-quantum cryptography. Attendees had the opportunity to engage directly with authentication and identity experts through open Q&A, networking and demos.

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Overview

The FIDO Alliance recently held a pivotal one-day seminar exploring the transformative power of passkey authentication in Australia and beyond.

This dynamic event attracted 150-200 influential leaders and decision-makers from government, consumer, and enterprise sectors to explore the future of secure online identity in Australia, New Zealand, and overseas. The agenda covered use cases, case studies, and the latest data and collaboration happening to implement passkeys for consumers, workers, and governments regionally and around the world.

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The FIDO Alliance hosted a webinar on September 24, 2024, with top digital identity experts to discuss the latest updates to the standard and what they mean for passkeys.

Megan Shamas, CMO of the FIDO Alliance, was joined by guests Ryan Galluzzo, Digital Identity Program lead of NIST NCCOE, Teresa Wu, co-chair of the FIDO Alliance Government Deployment Working Group and VP of Smart Credentials at IDEMIA. The panel unpacked the latest changes to the draft and shared what it means for passkeys.

Webinar attendees also had an opportunity to get questions answered before the public comment submission deadline next month. NIST requests that all comments be submitted by 11:59 pm Eastern Time on October 7, 2024.

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Attendees also had the opportunity to engage directly with those who are currently implementing FIDO technology through open Q&A and networking – plus the opportunity to see demos and meet the experts that can help move FIDO deployments forward.

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Join this webinar to:

• Learn best practices to meet end-user needs with passkeys
• Learn how to reduce costs with passkeys
• Learn how passkeys create a long-term authentication strategy built on standards

This webinar is for:

• Product managers
• IT managers / leaders
• Security Analysts
• Data Analysts

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• Learn how to execute a passkey strategy that solves business goals and end-user needs
• Learn how to use the FIDO Design Guidelines to jump-start your concepts and socialize them to win stakeholder alignment within your organization
• Watch real users using passkeys for the first time and learn how to use passkey usability research findings to demystify passkey experiences and align requirements amongst your teams

This webinar is for:

• Developers
• Designers
• Content Strategists

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• Learn how to significantly increase first try consumer sign in success and speed to sign in
• Learn how to align your teams around user experience patterns proven to be easy for consumers
• Mitigating threats of phishing, credential stuffing and other remote attacks. Also, learn how to offer passkeys without needing passwords as an alternative sign-in or account recovery method.

This webinar is for:

• Authentication product leaders
• Chief Technology Officers (CTO)
• Chief Marketing Officers (CMO)
• Senior Vice Presidents

Attendees had the opportunity to engage directly with those who are currently implementing FIDO technology through open Q&A and networking to get first-hand insights on how to move their own passkey deployments forward.

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Attendees had the opportunity to engage directly with those who are currently implementing FIDO technology through open Q&A, networking and exhibits to get first-hand insights on how to move their own passkey deployments forward.

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During this webinar accessibility experts from FIDO Alliance board member companies Meta and VMware discussed how to make your FIDO deployment accessible to users with a wide range of disabilities. 

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Speakers:

• Yao Ding, Accessibility Research Lead, Meta
• Joyce Oshita, Accessibility Test Engineer, VMware

FIDO security keys have been deemed the “gold standard” for multi-factor authentication. With this in mind, the FIDO Alliance published user experience guidelines earlier this year to help online service providers design a better, more consistent user experience for the consumer security key audience and ultimately maximize adoption. View the video.

Beyond those core benefits, we’re seeing growing use cases and demand for more advanced Certified Authenticators – as well as in FIDO’s biometric component certification program, which is a useful https://rxreviewz.com/ mechanism for assessing how well biometric products perform against industry standard metrics.  

Are you thinking about developing FIDO products and getting certified? Are you a service provider wondering what FIDO Certified means for you? Are you just wondering what the different certification programs are and how they relate to each other? Watch the video.

“The FIDO Device Onboard standard released today builds on the Alliance’s ongoing efforts to help close the security gaps that currently exist on the web, by expanding this work into IoT applications,” said Andrew Shikiar, executive director and CMO of the FIDO Alliance. “Businesses recognize the huge potential of the IoT and the enormous benefits it can bring to manufacturing, retail, healthcare, transportation, logistics and more. The paradigm needs to shift immediately so we can move IoT technologies ahead with safer, stronger and more secure means of authentication for these important uses in industrial and commercial environments.”

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The web portion covers how to build a website with a simple re-authentication functionality using a fingerprint sensor. Re-authentication is a concept where a user signs into a website once, then authenticate again as they try to enter important sections of the website, or come back after a certain interval, etc in order to protect the account. (Your First WebAuthn Codelab via Google)

The Android portion covers how to build an Android app with a simple re-authentication functionality using fingerprint sensor. (Your First Android FIDO2 API Codelab via Google)

Get the answer to this question and more in this video on the report, featuring Al Pascual, senior vice president and research director, Javelin Strategy & Research and Andrew Shikiar, CMO, FIDO Alliance. These speakers share analysis on the state of consumer and enterprise authentication among U.S. businesses and the role that strong authentication is playing in protecting accounts and securing access to valuable data and critical systems.

FIDO Alliance standards were created from the outset with a “privacy by design” approach and are a strong fit for GDPR compliance. Crucially, FIDO delivers authentication with no third-party involvement or tracking between accounts and services. And when it comes to biometrics, FIDO standards prevent this information from being stored and matched in servers – it never leaves the user’s device – and FIDO(R) Certified devices do not allow for any biometric data to be captured.

This presentation covers:
Key GDPR considerations when deploying strong authentication
Where FIDO Authentication relates to GDPR articles on data protection, consent of data subject and data subject rights
How FIDO can help your organization meet GDPR requirements