The Fast IDentity Online (FIDO) Alliance, an industry association established to create a superior authentication method than the password, has revealed that 250 products are now FIDO Certified, or growth of over 200 percent since this time last year.Organizations with new FIDO Certified products announced today include: Aware, Inc.; Bank of America, Daon; Feitian Technologies Co., Ltd.; HangZhou Synochip Data Security Technology Co., Ltd.; Highmaru Inc.; ISITYOU Ltd.; KICA (Korea Information Certificate Authority); NBREDS; NHN ENTERTAINMENT; SSenStone; thinkAT; TRUXTUN CAPITAL; WiActs Inc.In a blog post, Fido noted that “FIDO Certified solutions provide many options to address enterprise and service providers' varying business cases – and desired user experiences ߪ All FIDO Certified products and solutions have one very important thing in common: they can eliminate an organization's risky and inefficient reliance on single-factor username and password authentication.The article by Adam Powers, Technical Director, FIDO Alliance, added that beyond growth in certified products, that there is also increasing demand from organizations wanting to become FIDO Certified.”To meet this surge in demand, we have expanded the program, including the recent launch of On Demand Testing as an alternative to attending interoperability events. The industry's response has been overwhelmingly positive with several organizations choosing this testing option.”

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