FIDO alliance aims high on Chinese market
- By Guo Yiming
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Brett McDowell speaks about FIDO's online authentication at a symposium on identity trust in cyberspace on April 27. [Photo provided to China.org.cn] |
![Brett McDowell speaks about FIDO's online authentication at a symposium on identity trust in cyberspace on April 27. [Photo provided to China.org.cn]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20160428/001aa0ba3c6a188c02ec14.jpg "Brett McDowell speaks about FIDO's online authentication at a symposium on identity trust in cyberspace on April 27. [Photo provided to China.org.cn]")
FIDO (Fast Identity Online) alliance, the security-minded industry consortium that aims to transform the current username/password combo into a more secure and user-friendly universal authentication, is looking to China for more adoptions and deployments of its standards.
"We founded the FIDO China Working Group this January in order to collect business requirements from the Chinese market, facilitate the evolution of FIDO technology and lead collaboration within and outside China," Brett McDowell, executive director of the alliance, told China.org.cn.
He added that the working group is the first one FIDO has founded specifically focusing on one regional area.
With almost all the global tech giants on board, like Google, Netflix, Microsoft, Intel, Samsung and Lenovo, FIDO is looking to introduce stronger online authentication, including biometric measures like fingerprints and iris recognition, amid increasing risks of hacking, data breaches and identity theft.
President Xi Jinping has called for the comprehensive detection of internet risks to ensure online security at a symposium on cybersecurity and informatization on April 19, asking for the establishment of a system to protect information infrastructure in industries like finance, energy, telecommunications and transportation.
"Many businesses and government agencies around the world have a shared interest in improving online authentication to address the password problem," said McDowell, who is in China for a symposium on identity trust in cyberspace on April 27.
"But the problem is too big to solve single-handedly, and we must collaborate on a global scale."
He expressed that an evolving FIDO is happy to consider specific regional requirements as well as government regulations.
FIDO now boasts over 30 China-based members including Lenovo, Alibaba Group, Huawei and the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
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Henry (Haixin) Chai, CEO of Online Biometric Authentication Ltd., a subsidiary of the Lenovo Capital & Incubator Group (LCIG) under the Chinese PC and smartphone manufacturer, answers questions from China.org.cn on April 27. [Photo provided to China.org.cn] |
"We will work together with all stakeholders in the field to address the authentication problem and push application of the international standard across the ecosystem," said Henry (Haixin) Chai, CEO of the new firm and also chairman of FIDO China working group.
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