FIDO - leading the way to a passwordless future with Andrew Shikiar, FIDO's Executive Director

Andrew Shikiar, Executive Director & CMO, FIDO Alliance, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about how he came to work with FIDO Alliance, an open industry association launched in February 2013 whose mission is to develop and promote authentication standards that help reduce the world's over-reliance on passwords.

Here are some of the insights Andrew shared:

How Andrew came about leading FIDODiscussed what FIDO is and how it worksA world of passwordless future as an alternative to bypass authenticationImportance of security and privacy to go passwordlessThe latest development in projects and standards that push towards a passwordless futureDiscussed 2 step verification and if it works in the meantime as we transition to a passwordless world Differences between financial services and other industries towards their openness towards a passwordless futureOther work areas of focus at FIDO: identity verification & binding, and lastly, the Internet of thingsThe key themes emerged at the Authenticate 2021 conference, which Andrew hosted recentlyThe best way to find out more about FIDO