Japan's largest mobile network operator NTT DOCOMO has extended its deployment of FIDO Certified strong authentication to millions of its customers with Touch ID-equipped Apple iPhones and other iOS devices.
DOCOMO adds this new FIDO-for-iOS capability to an already impressive suite of 10 FIDO Certified Android devices from Samsung, Fujitsu, Sharp, and Sony Mobile, ensuring that customers enjoy choice between platforms, devices and biometric authentication modalities including fingerprint touch, fingerprint swipe, and iris recognition.
DOCOMO's decision to add support for FIDO strong authentication to the base capabilities of Touch ID underscores both the security benefits and the rapid market adoption of FIDO standards in just over a year since the specifications were published.
FIDO claims that today more than 100 solutions have been FIDO Certified and, in addition to DOCOMO, hundreds of millions of end-users' web and mobile apps have been FIDO-enabled for strong authentication protection by leading service providers including Google, PayPal, Samsung, Bank of America, Dropbox, and GitHub.
Brett McDowell, executive director of the FIDO Alliance
As more service providers look to reduce fraud risk and give customers a better, faster user experience, I believe they will be following DOCOMO's example and deploying cross-platform FIDO-enabled, privacy-respecting biometric authentication that is simultaneously more secure and convenient.
