{"id":3709,"date":"2015-02-18T12:15:20","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T18:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/?p=3709"},"modified":"2015-02-18T12:15:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T18:15:20","slug":"microsoft-confirms-biometric-authentication-for-windows-10-is-the-end-of-the-password-nigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/microsoft-confirms-biometric-authentication-for-windows-10-is-the-end-of-the-password-nigh\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft confirms biometric authentication for Windows 10: Is the end of the password nigh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Microsoft confirms biometric authentication for Windows 10: Is the end of the password nigh?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has announced that FIDO (Fast Identity Online) support will be coming to Windows 10, offering stronger password-less authentication for users.<\/p>\n<p>The tech giant, which joined the FIDO Alliance in late 2013, noted in a blog post how FIDO will integrate with Windows 10 sign-in, Azure Active Directory, as well as various enterprise services, such as Office 365 Exchange Online, Salesforce, Citrix, and Box.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFIDO standards enable a universal framework that a global ecosystem delivers for a consistent and greatly improved user experience of strong password-less authentication,\u201d Dustin Ingalls, Microsoft group program manager wrote.  \u201cInteroperability of FIDO products is a hallmark of FIDO authentication, and for this reason we\u2019re confident that it will succeed in transforming the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appstechnews.com\/news\/2015\/feb\/18\/microsoft-confirms-biometric-authentication-windows-10-end-password-nigh\/\" title=\"Microsoft confirms biometric authentication for Windows 10: Is the end of the password nigh?\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft confirms biometric authentication for Windows 10: Is the end of the password nigh?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft confirms biometric authentication for Windows 10: Is the end of the password nigh? Microsoft has announced that FIDO (Fast Identity Online) support will be coming to Windows 10, offering stronger password-less authentication for users. The tech giant, which joined the FIDO Alliance in late 2013, noted in a blog post how FIDO will integrate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[597,210,109,6],"tags":[592,847,1345],"class_list":["post-3709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biometric","category-cloud-2","category-directory","category-news","tag-fast-identity-online","tag-fido","tag-iam-solutions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p25vfy-XP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3710,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions\/3710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}