Mobile Smart Portal LINE Corporation Appointed to FIDO Alliance Board of Directors
May 17 2017 - 8:00AM
The FIDO Alliance, the industry consortium with 250+ member and
partner organizations developing open industry standards for
simpler, stronger authentication, announced today that LINE
Corporation has been appointed to its Board of Directors. The FIDO
Alliance Board of Directors guides the strategic vision of the
Alliance and its activities to reduce the world’s reliance on
passwords with next generation FIDO® Certified solutions.
LINE Corporation is based in Japan and operates the LINE
messaging app, a global service used in more than 230 countries and
territories. It offers free one-to-one and group messaging.
“We look forward to contributing to the FIDO Alliance at the
board level, as LINE is dedicated to improving security and
convenience for our users and the world,” said Takesh Nakayama,
CPO/CISO of LINE Corporation. “We will accomplish this by
implementing the password-less authentication methods proposed by
FIDO Alliance, not only for the main LINE messaging app and other
existing apps, but also for future IoT and other services. By
implementing FIDO authentication methods into LINE and other
applications, we expect to resolve various security and privacy
concerns, including phishing, account hijacking, and unauthorized
use of services, stemming from existing password authentication
systems.”
“LINE is a true innovator in social media, providing an
innovative platform that gives users across many Asian countries
more convenient ways to interact and transact online. LINE's online
privacy and security goals are very much aligned with the FIDO
Alliance vision of providing more convenient ways to authenticate
to online services while simultaneously providing strong security,”
said Brett McDowell, executive director of the FIDO Alliance. “We
look forward to LINE’s contributions as a board member of the FIDO
Alliance to help us reduce the reliance on passwords worldwide,
including but not limited to seeing LINE bring simpler, stronger
FIDO Authentication to its hundreds of millions of users.”
Specifications and certifications from the FIDO Alliance enable
an interoperable ecosystem of on-device authenticators that can be
used with compliant mobile apps and websites. Many top service
providers, such as Facebook, Google, PayPal, Samsung, Bank of
America, NTT DOCOMO, Dropbox, and Salesforce, have made FIDO
Authentication available to protect more than 3 billion online
accounts. The mobile industry is rapidly adopting FIDO
Authentication, with FIDO Certified solutions already available on
flagship mobile devices from six of the top ten mobile handset
manufacturers. Additionally, more than 340 products are now FIDO
Certified, giving enterprises and online service providers a rich
variety of interoperable FIDO Authentication solutions to choose
from.
About the FIDO Alliance
The FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance, www.fidoalliance.org,
was formed in July 2012 to address the lack of interoperability
among strong authentication technologies, and remedy the problems
users face with creating and remembering multiple usernames and
passwords. The FIDO Alliance is changing the nature of
authentication with standards for simpler, stronger authentication
that define an open, scalable, interoperable set of mechanisms that
reduce reliance on passwords. FIDO authentication is stronger,
private, and easier to use when authenticating to online
services.
The FIDO Alliance Board of Directors includes leading global
organizations: Aetna, Inc.; Alibaba Holdings; American Express; ARM
Holdings plc; Bank of America Corporation; BC Card; CrucialTec;
Daon; Egis; Feitian Technologies; Fingerprint Cards; Gemalto;
Google; Infineon Technologies AG; ING; Intel; Lenovo; LINE
Corp. (NYSE:LN); Mastercard; Microsoft; Nok Nok Labs, Inc.; NTT
DOCOMO, INC.; NXP Semiconductors N.V.; Oberthur Technologies OT;
PayPal; Qualcomm, Inc.; RaonSecure Co Ltd; RSA®; Samsung
Electronics, Ltd; Synaptics; USAA; VASCO Data Security
International, Inc.; Visa Inc.; Yubico.
Contact
Megan Shamas
Montner Tech PR
203-226-9290
mshamas@montner.com
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