FIDO Alliance Welcomes Leading Technology Company ARM to the Board of Directors to Help Deliver a Secure World Beyond Passwords
April 22 2014 - 4:01AM
Marketwired
FIDO Alliance Welcomes Leading Technology Company ARM to the Board
of Directors to Help Deliver a Secure World Beyond Passwords
CAMBRIDGE, UNITED KINGDOM and MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(Marketwired -
Apr 22, 2014) - The FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance, the
industry consortium revolutionizing secure online authentication,
has announced that ARM, the world's leading semiconductor design
company, has joined the Board of Directors. The FIDO Alliance Board
comprises some of the world's most influential corporations
including Microsoft, Google, Bank of America and Samsung.
The Alliance brings members together with the aim of creating
simple, strong authentication based on industry standards that are
ideally suited to emerging methods such as biometrics and trusted
user interfaces.
"We are very excited to welcome ARM to the FIDO Alliance Board
of Directors. As FIDO Alliance membership now exceeds 100
participants, ARM is moving from sponsor to board membership,
taking on an important leadership role within the FIDO ecosystem,"
said Michael Barrett, president of the FIDO Alliance. "Next
developments in FIDO authentication will prove critical to
accelerating adoption of strong authentication that can move us
beyond the confines of password dependencies. ARM's leadership in
many global markets can measurably facilitate interoperability
among authentication methods, which is foundational to the FIDO
Alliance's objectives."
"ARM is supportive of FIDO's vision of a world beyond passwords
and our security architecture can help to turn that into reality,"
says Rob Coombs, director of security marketing, ARM. "As a board
member we want to push for the universal adoption of FIDO
authentication as it will allow people to securely connect to the
services they care about in a frictionless way that links multiple
web-based services with a diverse range of devices.
Rob continues: "Biometrics are already being used to authorize
financial transactions from a smartphone, and it's easy to see how
technology such as an ARM® TrustZone® technology-based Trusted
Execution Environment can be used with FIDO standards to move
beyond passwords into a world where authentication methods are
interoperable. The key is ensuring that embedded security builds on
appropriate hardware and software that is well integrated so it's
fit for purpose and cost-effective."
ARM has been developing secure technology for the mobile market
for many years and its TrustZone-based Trusted Execution
Environment is now embedded in hundreds of millions of smart
connected devices. It runs separately from the main operating
system and enhances endpoint security, enabling new services such
as pay-as-you-go premium content on any screen, with fast and
secure website logins, simple and secure payment and banking. It is
designed to enhance the user experience and protect against
malicious attacks in an integrated and cost-effective way.
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 Alliance plans to change the nature of
authentication by developing standards-based specifications 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: ARM Holdings plc (LSE: ARM) (NASDAQ: ARMH); Bank of
America Corporation (NYSE: BAC); BlackBerry®; CrucialTec (KRX:
114120); Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS); Google;
IdentityX; Lenovo; MasterCard (NYSE: MA); Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT);
Nok Nok Labs, Inc.; NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI);
Oberthur Technologies OT; PayPal (NASDAQ: EBAY); RSA®; Samsung
Electronics, Ltd (KOSCOM: SECL); Synaptics (NASDAQ: SYNA);
Yubico.
About ARM ARM is at the heart of the world's most advanced
digital products. Our technology enables the creation of new
markets and transformation of industries and society. We design
scalable, energy efficient-processors and related technologies to
deliver the intelligence in applications ranging from sensors to
servers, including smartphones, tablets, enterprise infrastructure
and the Internet of Things.
Our innovative technology is licensed by ARM Partners who have
shipped more than 50 billion Systems on Chip (SoCs) containing our
intellectual property since the company began in 1990. Together
with our Connected Community, we are breaking down barriers to
innovation for developers, designers and engineers, ensuring a
fast, reliable route to market for leading electronics companies.
Learn more and join the conversation at
http://community.arm.com.
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"ARM" refers to ARM Holdings plc (LSE: ARM) (NASDAQ: ARMH) and
members of its corporate group as constituted from time to
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For more information Suzanne Matick FIDO Alliance (+001) 831 479
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