The most important Internet security group you’ve never heard of

You can be forgiven if the FIDO Alliance is not on your radar screen. It was launched barely 18 months ago, to help solve the “password crisis” online; but it’s already proven to be one of most influential security bodies we’ve yet seen.

The typical Internet user has dozens of accounts and passwords. Not only are they a pain in the rear, poor passwords practices are increasingly implicated in fraud and terrible misadventures like the recent “iCloud Hack” which exposed celebrities’ personal details.