The FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance, an industry consortium of open standards for simpler, stronger authentication, has today announced that NTT DOCOMO is the world's first Mobile Network Operator to deploy FIDO biometric-based authentication throughout its network, delivering password-less and strong authentication for its customers.
According to FIDO, DOCOMO's devices and services achieve several milestones for the FIDO Ecosystem, including the first carrier billing system enabled by FIDO authentication, the first federated identity system to integrate FIDO authentication, the first mobile services ecosystem to launch with multiple FIDO Certified devices, and the first mobile device to offer FIDO privacy-compliant iris biometric authentication.
FIDO also announced that NTT DOCOMO has joined the company's board of directors. Apart from DOCOMO, FIDO has extensive engagement with other telecommunications and IT giants via its Fido Alliance, which boasts participation from companies such as PayPal, Samsung, Lenovo, Microsoft, Google and MasterCard.
FIDO Alliance president Dustin Ingalls
Today is a historic day for the FIDO Alliance, as NTT DOCOMO is not only our newest board member, they are the world's first Mobile Network Operator to deploy FIDO authentication. We enthusiastically welcome NTT DOCOMO to the FIDO Alliance board of directors and recognize their outstanding accomplishment in bringing to market another innovation -- FIDO authentication -- greatly improving their customer experience and end-to-end security.
Seiji Maruyama, Senior Vice President, Managing Director of Product Department, NTT DOCOMO
By eliminating passwords with FIDO standards, we are able to deliver a superior end-user experience that includes enhanced security features; we will also be able to introduce innovative new services and product offerings that can utilize standards-based platforms and devices. After reviewing the different approaches to authentication available today, we settled on the FIDO standards as the right strategy for solving the current and future authentication needs of our customers. Since the FIDO technology is open standard anyone will be able to utilize, we look forward to creating the FIDO eco-system together with FIDO Alliance.
