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Whether you’re a developer, IT Manager or end-user, you’re familiar with the problems with passwords. They tax end-users, make your infrastructure vulnerable, and are susceptible to scalable attacks. Nok Nok Labs founded the FIDO Alliance in 2013 and brought its key inventions to create a framework of FIDO standards to help eliminate passwords. With FIDO,...
Facebook was a very early participant in 2011 in the informal incubation efforts that Nok Nok Labs conducted prior to creating the non-profit FIDO Alliance. It is also with some delight that we welcome back Brad Hill (@hillbrad) who will be Facebook’s representative to FIDO. We collaborated closely with Brad during his tenure at PayPal...
The FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance was founded by a small group of companies including Nok Nok Labs five short years ago. A lot has happened in five years. We have progressed, pushed forward and our solution has built up an Alliance of over 250 of the worlds largest organizations all dedicated to solving one...
Today marks another significant milestone in replacing the universal reliance on passwords and Nok Nok Labs is proud to be one of the co-authors and designers of the WebAuthN specification with Google, Microsoft, PayPal and others.  Today’s significant achievement is the W3C Web Authentication specification reaching “Candidate Recommendation” (CR) status. This is a major milestone...
The reporting by Bloomberg and early disclosures from Uber indicates that the root cause was once again a credential compromise (stolen login credentials from a cloud-based storage system used by its developers). That attack allowed a small lapse in security to spiral into a huge liability for the brand and the business. While others may gloat at...
When we started Nok Nok Labs, I often said that our vision for Modern Authentication was that it was a “Game of Signals” – one that consisted of claims & calculations. Users and devices provide a signal through an authentication claim (e.g. a password, a smart-card, a biometric etc). The relying party would process that...
As we have written in our blog before – NNL has partnered with the GSMA on their product – Mobile Connect. Mobile Connect is a secure universal log-in solution in which the GSMA aims to provide a worldwide login service. This project enables interoperability and aims to leverage ubiquity to ease the global deployment of...
One of the most popular attractions at the mothership event in Barcelona is Innovation City. Here the GSMA – and their key innovation partners – show how the “power of mobile” is transforming lives across the world. This year, the GSMA is putting on a mock urban environment to showcase what modern, mobile-centric identity solutions...
Each of these interactions, thanks to biometrics, can be accomplished seamlessly and without friction. Switching from a casual inquiry, to a personal, non-sensitive account, to a private, highly-secured account is accomplished with a swipe of a fingertip or by blinking into a camera. The advent and mass adoption of consumer-grade biometrics has drastically changed the...
The cascade of cyberattacks from the WannaCry ransomware that encrypted hospital computers to the Dyn attack that took down large swaths of the internet, to the most recent GoldenEye (or Petya) malware that is still sweeping the globe, the parade is never-ending. In a recent article in the New York Times, IDT Corporation’s Global CIO...
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