Security News > 2021 > April > FIDO launches protocol to secure IoT onboarding to cloud and on-premise management platforms

The FIDO Alliance announced the launch of the FIDO Device Onboard protocol, a new, open IoT standard which will enable devices to simply and securely onboard to cloud and on-premise management platforms.

Of the 170 IoT leaders surveyed, they found that 85% say security concerns remain a major barrier to IoT adoption.

The FIDO Alliance's FDO specification for IoT was collaboratively developed to solve the issue of IoT security in onboarding - just as it has done with its FIDO authentication standards to help address the global data breach problem.

"The FIDO Device Onboard standard released today builds on the Alliance's ongoing efforts to help close the security gaps that currently exist on the web, by expanding this work into IoT applications," said Andrew Shikiar, executive director and CMO of the FIDO Alliance.

FDO is an automated onboarding protocol for IoT devices, leveraging asymmetric public key cryptography to provide the industrial IoT industry with a fast and secure way to onboard any device to any device management system.

"Implementation of the FDO standard will enable businesses to truly take advantage of the full IoT opportunity by replacing the current manual onboarding process with an automated, highly secure industry solution."

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