Visa joins Fido Alliance
The FIDO Alliance, an industry consortium revolutionizing online authentication with standards for strong authentication, announced that Visa, the global payments technology company, has joined. With this, Visa been appointed to the Board of Directors. Also, Visa Europe will join the alliance as a sponsor member and will be represented on the board by Visa Inc. FIDO Alliance members commit to share technology and collaborate to deliver open specifications for universal strong authentication that enables FIDO-compliant authentication methods to be interoperable, more secure and private, and easier-to-use. FIDO specifications will support a full range of authentication technologies, including biometrics such as fingerprint, eye and iris scanners, voice and facial recognition, as well as further enabling existing solutions and communications standards, such as Trusted Platform Modules (TPM), USB Security Tokens, embedded Secure Elements (eSE), Smart Cards, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), and NFC.
