FIDO Alliance
What is FIDO?
The Fast Identity Online (FIDO) Alliance, launched in 2012, is an open industry association, and its mission is to develop and promote authentication standards that sunset the use of passwords. In addition, the FIDO Alliance aims to standardize user-controlled authentication mechanisms such as smartphones or hardware security keys via cryptographic authentication
The Alliance aims to replace passwords by using a superior authentication method that leverages systems such as public key cryptography to make its authentication methods resistant to phishing, password loss, and many other attacks. The security keys are usually USB devices but can also use Bluetooth or NFC-enabled technology.