47: How The FIDO Alliance Are Going To Kill The Password

In 2004, Bill Gates declared passwords are dead, but they somehow survived. But all that is about to change. Users are ready to remove their biggest frustration and 200 of the biggest names in business such as Microsoft, MasterCard, Google, PayPal and eBay are all part of the FIDO Alliance  The FIDO Alliance recently announced over 150 Biometric, and Second-Factor Authentication Products have now been Certified and eBay became the first e-commerce company to directly achieve FIDO Certification.   I invited BrettMcDowell, executive director of the FIDO Alliance onto the show to learn more about their plans.   Guest Info    https://fidoalliance.org/