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Forget Passwords!
- Majority of online attacks and identity theft are connected to password theft
- Too many accounts and too many passwords to remember
- Too many passwords are reused across too many sites
- This leads to financial and information loss
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Today's Solutions
Passwords and proprietary tokens are:
- Too hard to use
- Too expensive
- Too complex
- Too proprietary
- Not scalable
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FIDO is BYOD (evice)
- FIDO is an open approach to secure authentication
- A wide variety of devices can easily plug into FIDO
- All vendors are welcome
- Users and organizations pick the security devices that best meet their needs
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Easy for Users
- FIDO devices are dynamically discovered by websites
- Enroll: Users are asked if they want to connect FIDO devices to their accounts
- Login: Once enrolled, users can just swipe their finger, insert their USB or enter a PIN to access those websites.
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Secure
FIDO is much more secure than regular passwords
- Provides Two Factor Authentication
- Keeps a secret that is unique for each user at each website
- Most secret values are stored in hardware that cannot be accessed
- FIDO can be used for account logins on the internet or intranet
- FIDO can be used for web or in applications
- FIDO can be used to confirm actions like transactions or user agreements
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Easy to Integrate
- The FIDO client can run on any platform
- Dynamic discovery of FIDO devices means that they are easy to identify and to connect to accounts
- FIDO supports a wide variety of security devices so you are not locked into a single vendor
- Websites and enterprises can decide the policy for FIDO devices
FIDO Alliance Founders
