Digital IDs mean manageable and critical change, FIDO tells US federal security leaders

Clearly appreciating that it was selling digital authentication to data-security officials in the inertia-guided U.S. federal bureaucracy, a FIDO Alliance panel speaking in a webinar spent a lot of time telling them not to panic.

New anti-phishing procedures are on the way, the panel said, but they come with practical levels of flexibility and don't require replacing time-honored personal ID verification (PIV) credentials and common access cards.

The alliance members, in an accompanying white paper, stipulated that implementing single …

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