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29 Apr
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Phillip Dunkelberger Recognized as a “Champion in Security” by Portal26 at RSA Conference 2025

April 29, 2025 Nok Nok News Company News, Cybersecurity, Events, Press Release 0 comments

Phillip Dunkelberger Recognized as a “Champion in Security” by Portal26 at RSA Conference 2025

SAN FRANCISCO, April 29, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Nok Nok, a leader in passwordless authentication for the world’s largest organizations, is pleased to congratulate, Phillip Dunkelberger, CEO of Nok Nok, for being named a Champion in Security for Community by Portal26 during its Third Annual Champions in Security Awards at the 2025 RSA Conference in San Francisco.

The Champions in Security Awards, organized by Portal26, honor cybersecurity professionals who exemplify the values of Respect, Inclusion, Innovation, Community, Collaboration, and Education. This recognition reflects not just individual excellence but the power of collective action in advancing security and resilience in a rapidly changing digital world.

“I’m honored to be selected by my peers, but this recognition isn’t just about me—it’s about the communities I’ve been fortunate to be part of throughout my career,” said Phillip Dunkelberger.

“From helping establish Ethernet specifications during my early days at Xerox, to the passionate international PGP movement, and now to the incredible global community around FIDO, I’ve seen firsthand how real change happens when people come together. Authentication is where cyber criminals start. That’s why we and others invented the FIDO protocol and launched the FIDO Alliance and invented the FIDO protocols to eliminate passwords and to build something better.”

Phillip’s award underscores a legacy of community-driven innovation. Fourteen years ago, he and a group of security visionaries founded the FIDO Alliance, a now-global organization working to eliminate passwords—the weakest link in cybersecurity. FIDO, which began as a bold idea, has since grown into international standards adopted by industry leading companies and governments alike. Today, passkeys are reshaping how billions of people authenticate online and make digital life safer for everyone.

As cyber threats become more sophisticated and AI accelerates both risks and innovation, Nok Nok remains committed to delivering strong, simple, and scalable authentication that protects users and enterprises.

Nok Nok extends its sincere thanks to Portal26 for celebrating the work of those who fight to protect our digital infrastructure. The cybersecurity field is not a singular effort—it is made up of many communities that work across technologies, industry sectors, and borders to defend against evolving threats.

Congratulations to all of this year’s Champions. Your leadership is helping build a safer digital future—for everyone.

About Nok Nok

Nok Nok lets you create safer, faster user experiences with key-based passwordless authentication based on the FIDO and other standards that enable compliance with global user and data privacy regulations. Nok Nok is a leader in passwordless customer authentication and is trusted by the biggest banks, telcos and fintechs including BBVA, Intuit, Motorola Solutions Inc., NTT DOCOMO, Standard Bank, T-Mobile, and Verizon. For more information, visit www.noknok.com.

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27 Oct
3 Min read

Authenticate 2023: The Tipping Point for Passkeys and Passwordless Authentication

October 27, 2023 Matt Lourie Events, passwordless authentication 0 comments

Last week, Nok Nok attended Authenticate 2023, the industry’s only conference dedicated to all aspects of user authentication, with a focus on FIDO. According to a poll, over half of the attendees were new to FIDO, highlighting the growing interest. It was incredible to see how far the industry has come. When the FIDO Alliance was first founded 11 years ago by Nok Nok and 5 other visionary co-founders, passwordless authentication was just a bold theoretical idea. This, however, marked the start of an industry movement to passwordless authentication. With over 600 attendees representing major platforms, vendors, and industries, Authenticate 2023 demonstrated the tremendous momentum and excitement building around passkeys.

Passkey Readiness

Leading up to the conference, Google and Apple made big announcements concerning passkeys. All users signing in to Google accounts will be prompted to create and use passkeys instead of passwords. Similarly, Apple announced their plans to automatically assign a passkey to a user’s Apple ID when it launches iOS 17, iPadOS 17 and macOS Sonoma.

These major industry roll outs signal that passkeys are ready for mainstream adoption everywhere we currently use passwords. There were many sessions on passkey success stories, with practical advice on real-world implementation and deployment considerations.

User Experience is Key for Growth

One key focus at Authenticate 2023 was the importance of optimizing the user experience for passkeys. There were many informative sessions covering how to refine the passkey authentication experience for users. Speakers shared user experience (UX) design principles to keep in mind, accessibility considerations for inclusive authentication, and ideas for balancing strong security with usability in passkey flows. The sessions made clear that while technology may enable passwordless authentication, thoughtfully designing the UX is crucial for driving mass adoption.

FIDO Adoption

With passkeys becoming more widely used, the conference examined deployment challenges, best practices, and lessons learned for a wide range of workforce and consumer-facing use cases. These included fintech (Intuit), media, e-commerce, travel, and gaming. The sessions provided key takeaways for organizations implementing FIDO-based authentication including Nok Nok’s session by Dr. Rolf Lindemann on Strategies for Using Passkeys in Regulated Markets.

FIDO Usage in the Government

Several sessions dove into adoption of FIDO standards and passkeys by government agencies. There was recognition that while Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards are vital for government use cases, FIDO has an important role to play in addressing gaps where PIV cards are not viable. These insights highlighted the complementary value and growing role passkeys are playing in public sector digital transformation. For more information, see the recently published FIDO Alliance Guidance for the US Government.

From major platform announcements to real-world deployment lessons learned, Authenticate 2023 showcased the enormous progress and potential of passwordless FIDO-based authentication. As passkeys and FIDO standards continue to gain momentum, the conference provides valuable insights for any organization implementing modern authentication.

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05 Apr
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Nok Nok’s Rolf Lindemann at Identiverse 2023

April 5, 2023 Nok Nok News Company News, Events 0 comments

Join Nok Nok’s Rolf Lindemann at Identiverse 2023 at 8:30 am on June 2nd in Las Vegas as he hosts, Leveraging Multi-Device Passkeys in Regulated Markets. As the leader of product and strategy at Nok Nok, Rolf brings more than 20 years of experience in IT security, he has deep knowledge of security markets and technologies.

Multi-device passkeys offer a convenient way to authenticate across devices – similar to how consumers have learned to authenticate with passwords.  For regulated industries, however, the duplication of keys, the lack of control when introducing new devices pose a compliance challenge.  Additionally, the lack of granularity when suspending or revoking such multi-device credentials adds complexity to practical implementations.

The good news is that there are strategies for overcoming these challenges, making it possible for banks, fintechs, mobile network operators, and other regulated industries to leverage the benefits of passkeys as part of their passwordless journey.  

In Rolf’s session you will learn various approaches for bringing the convenience of passkeys to your customers, while addressing the security requirements imposed on regulated markets.

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“Transactions using mobile devices are rapidly spreading and it is essential to support both usability and security. By combining Hitachi’s abundant system development capabilities and know-how in the financial system and security related fields, and Nok Nok’s globally deployed and proven FIDO certified products, we achieved this compatibility, which led to this adoption.”

– Mr. Nobuo Nagaarashi, General Manager, Financial Information Systems 1st Division, Hitachi, Ltd.

 

The M in MUFG stands for Mitsubishi, which is a combination of the words mitsu and hishi. Mitsu means three. Hishi means water chestnut, and the word denotes a rhombus or diamond shape.  In partnership with Hitachi, MUFG has enabled passwordless authentication solutions across many of the bank’s apps and services.

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“As an early adopter of FIDO, we’ve seen significant business benefits and are completely on board with continuing to leverage the latest FIDO innovations with our partner, Nok Nok.”

– Rakan Khalid, Group Product Manager, Identity.

 

Intuit has delivered passwordless authentication across mobile applications and devices using Nok Nok’s S3 Suite. The results have reduced customer friction in their Intuit application experience.

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“DOCOMO is a worldwide innovator in providing its millions of customers with simple and strong authentication backed by a standards-based approach.”

– Phillip Dunkelberger, President & CEO of Nok Nok Labs.

 

As one of Nok Nok’s earliest customers, NTT DOCOMO became the first carrier to offer a billing system that is enabled by FIDO, the first to offer a federated Identity system integrated FIDO, and was the first to offer a mobile device that authenticates via the iris biometric modality.

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“Traditionally, one of the biggest challenges of authentication systems has been to balance security with user experience. Due to the FIDO standard, we are confident that both elements work together seamlessly to provide customers with the highest security standards, along with a transparent and agile user experience.”

– Juan Francisco Losa, Global Technology & Information Security Officer.

Nok Nok partnered with banking leader, BBVA to improve the security and user experience of the bank’s mobile banking services through state-of-the-art biometric capabilities.

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“We can no longer rely on passwords for our financial or other sensitive transactions as they are weak, forgotten and easily hacked. We are very pleased with SoftBank’s decision to choose our standards-based authentication platform for their millions of customers.”

– Phillip Dunkelberger, President & CEO of Nok Nok Labs.

 

Millions of SoftBank’s mobile subscribers now have the ability to use biometrics for authentication through the mobile application “My SoftBank Plus”. With this implementation, SoftBank’s mobile users access data with the My SoftBank service using biometrics for a frictionless, simple and fast authentication experience.

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“Aflac is the first Japanese insurance provider to deploy a FIDO-certified solution, and we would like to continue collaborating with Nok Nok Labs to introduce it to banks, insurance industry and other industries.”

– Michihiko Ejiri, VP, Head of Portal Service Division, Service Technology Unit, Fujitsu Limited.

With the Nok Nok S3 Suite, Fujitsu has provided Aflac customers with strong authentication to their mobile claims payment application using any biometrics on their iOS and Android devices. The solution also provides Aflac and their customers with a scalable method to authenticate users that is interoperable with their existing security environments and reduces or eliminates the reliance on usernames and passwords.

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“For our customers, we only use the most secure products on the market that meet their requirements. Nok Nok perfectly aligns within our product portfolio and we are proud of the very trusted partnership.”

– Lukas Praml, CEO of YOUNIQX.

 

YOUNIQX Identity AG, the award-winning subsidiary of the Austrian State Printing House (OeSD) and Nok Nok partnered to deliver a electronic identity system (eID) for the citizens of the country of Liechtenstein.  This deployment represents the first time that Nok Nok’s FIDO platform has been used to deliver an eID.

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“Nok Nok’s state-of-the-art, standards-based platform will deliver a tremendous user experience,”

– Steve Bell, Chief Technology Officer at Gallagher

When a horse called Joe took too much of a liking to using a car as a scratching post, owner Bill Gallagher Sr. devised a cunning electrical circuit that delivered a shock whenever the horse rocked the vehicle, and in doing so created a company.  Today, with passwordless authentication from Nok Nok, Gallagher is leading the IoT industry with innovative solutions that work in your office and in the outback.

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“Our Forgot Password flows were running at about 65%. After we rolled out FIDO by Nok Nok, our forgot passwords dropped to 7%.”

Michael Engan, T-Mobile

 

Using the Nok Nok S3 Suite, T-Mobile has become a leader in carrier adoption of passwordless authentication. Their solutions have reduced forgotten passwords and dramatically improved customer satisfaction.

Watch Michael Engan from T-Mobile talk about their implementation of Nok Nok’s S3 Authentication Suite at Identiverse 2019.

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