Cisco Joins the FIDO Alliance Board
Duo Security has been a long-time supporter of the FIDO Alliance, starting in 2014 with our adoption of U2F. We remain active through 2024 in many of FIDO's working groups and continue to support the FIDO Alliance's mission of reducing the world's reliance on passwords through passkeys.
Two years ago, work began to assess Duo's commitment to this mission and consider we might more actively participate in its evolution. We are happy to announce the following changes to this strategic partnership.
First, Duo Security has successfully migrated our FIDO Alliance membership to Cisco. This will let us extend access to the FIDO Alliance to other Cisco teams like Webex.
Second, we realized that for Duo to effectively push for the improvements and changes that our customer's desire (or even require), we needed to increase Cisco's membership within the FIDO Alliance to gain a seat on the Board. The Board drives the direction of the FIDO Alliance. Additionally, as the FIDO Alliance shifts its strategy to focus on passkeys adoption guidance, we felt now was the time to leverage our extensive experience as a Relying Party and add our voice to underrepresented passkeys use cases.
“We are pleased to announce that the FIDO Alliance has approved Cisco’s application to join the Board… This will allow us at Duo Security and greater Cisco to push for the changes we and our customers desire within the FIDO Alliance.”
After months of discussing this idea with internal and external parties, a formal written application, and virtual interviews, we are pleased to announce that the FIDO Alliance has approved Cisco's application to join the Board. Matthew Miller will be Cisco's delegate on the FIDO Alliance Board with Chris Anderson serving as his alternative. This will allow us at Duo Security and greater Cisco to push for the changes we and our customers desire within the FIDO Alliance as well as continue our thought leadership within the identity and authentication industry.
“We enthusiastically welcome Cisco to our board of directors,” said Andrew Shikiar, executive director and CEO of the FIDO Alliance. “Cisco has been a longtime and valuable contributor to FIDO Alliance and its authentication specifications first through Duo Security and now formally as Cisco.”
Shikiar continued, “We look forward to Cisco’s expertise and direction as a relying party at the board level, which is critical now as FIDO technology has matured and we’ve shifted our focus to the usability of passkeys and enabling relying parties to implement them effectively.”
Here's to passkeys in 2024 and beyond!