Industry, govt work to align FIDO and NIST authentication standards

On day two of the 2023 Authenticate conference focused on user authentication, five prominent cybersecurity professionals convened on a panel to answer the titular question, “So, What Does the U.S. Government Think About FIDO Authentication?”

The panel was curated by Jeremy Grant, managing director for Venable’s Technology and Innovation Group, in his role as an advisor to the FIDO Alliance on government engagement. Grant cites the 2022 U.S. government policy calling for the use of phishing-resistant authentication across government …

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