Andrew Shikiar
- Leads the FIDO Alliance, the consortium behind FIDO2 and passkeys
- Drove the cross-platform passkey launch with Apple, Google, and Microsoft
- Previously led market development for Liberty Alliance and other consortia
Bio
Andrew Shikiar is executive director and CEO of the FIDO Alliance, the consortium whose specifications became WebAuthn and FIDO2 and, in consumer form, passkeys. He previously led market development for the Tizen Association, LiMo Foundation, and the Liberty Alliance Project.
Profile built from public consortium and press records.
Where their work shows up
The specification was the easy half. Passkeys only mattered once Apple, Google, and Microsoft agreed to sync them across their platforms and use the same name for them, and that is consortium work: getting competitors to ship a compatible thing on a compatible timeline. It is the clearest recent example of why industry bodies exist. See implementing passkeys in the enterprise, the best phishing-resistant MFA ranking, and the Authenticate conference.
Podcasts
- #384 - The FIDO Alliance's Next Frontier: Digital Credentials and Wallets · Identity at the Center · 2025-11-10
- Biometric Update Podcast Ep. 22: Passkeys ascendant with FIDO's Andrew Shikiar · The Biometric Update Podcast · 2025-11-07
- FIDO Multi Device Credentials with Andrew Shikiar and Tim Cappalli · Identity, Unlocked · 2022-06-14
- #141 - 2022: Year of the MFA Bypass · Identity at the Center · 2022-04-11
- #56 - What is FIDO with Andrew Shikiar · Identity at the Center · 2020-08-10
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- GlossaryPasskey
A passkey is a WebAuthn public-key credential that replaces a password. Possession of the authenticator plus a user verification step proves identity, with no s