The Fast Identity Online Alliance has established its FIDO Certified testing program for products and services that support the alliance's security specifications.
Thirty-one security authentication providers are already certified and are selling their products, FIDO said in a May 21 press release.
The FIDO Alliance industry consortium began its work three years ago, seeking authentication frameworks and second factors that would help organizations and individuals eventually eliminate passwords in e-commerce.
FIDO certification satisfies a need to ensure that implementations of the FIDO specification are uniform across products and that those products are interoperable, Brett McDowell, executive director of the FIDO Alliance, stated in the release.
The FIDO Certified program offers oversight that vertical industries need "to hasten the adoption of strong authentication products that stretch across enterprise boundaries and the range of mobile and other devices key in todays computing environment, McDowell added.
The new FIDO Certified testing program complements the previous FIDO Ready program, which was the first brand to define FIDO tested products.
The first FIDO Certified testing sessions were held San Jose and Mount View, Calif.
Future testing sessions will occur every 90 days, or as demand dictates, FIDO said.
Most major technology and security firms, including Nok Nok Labs, Oberthur Technologies, ValidSoft, Samsung, ARM and Alibaba, are FIDO Alliance members.
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