Andrew Shikiar, Executive Director & CMO, FIDO Alliance, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about how he came to work with FIDO Alliance, an open industry association launched in February 2013 whose mission is to develop and promote authentication standards that help reduce the world's over-reliance on passwords.

Here are some of the insights Andrew shared:

• How Andrew came about leading FIDO

• Discussed what FIDO is and how it works

• A world of passwordless future as an alternative to bypass authentication

• Importance of security and privacy to go passwordless

• The latest development in projects and standards that push towards a passwordless future

• Discussed 2 step verification and if it works in the meantime as we transition to a passwordless world

• Differences between financial services and other industries towards their openness towards a passwordless future

• Other work areas of focus at FIDO: identity verification & binding, and lastly, the Internet of things

• The key themes emerged at the Authenticate 2021 conference, which Andrew hosted recently

• The best way to find out more about FIDO