FIDO Alliance stories
The real cause of most attacks is not biometrics itself, but the storage of biometrics data in a centralised database.
Google's Titan security keys are now available in Canada, France, Japan, and several European countries, enhancing protection for high-risk users.
Attackers know that sometimes they don't need to attack the technology – they just need to attack people instead.
FIDO2 is a set of standards that enables easy and secure logins to websites and applications via biometrics, mobile devices and/or FIDO Security Keys.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and FIDO Alliance have finalised the WebAuthn standard, paving the way for passwordless logins and enhanced web security.
Mobile apps and websites can now leverage FIDO standards to provide a simpler and secure biometric login for over a billion devices supporting Android 7.0+.
