Fingerprint Cards (FPC) has secured a design win in India for its AllKey Pro secure microcontroller, which will power a new line of FIDO2 security keys aimed at both public-sector and enterprise deployments. According to financial disclosures, an Indian manufacturer of strong-authentication devices has selected AllKey Pro for a forthcoming portfolio of multi-factor authenticators aligned with India’s growing appetite for passkey-style logins and hardware-based identity assurance.
AllKey Pro combines FPC’s experience in low-power, secure microcontrollers with support for FIDO2 and WebAuthn, and can be paired with the company’s capacitive fingerprint sensors to create biometric hardware tokens. In an Indian context, where regulators and financial institutions are actively looking for alternatives to SMS one-time passwords and static credentials, the design win signals that local OEMs see value in moving to phishing-resistant, device-bound credentials that can still offer strong user convenience through on-device biometrics.
For security professionals, particularly in banking and government services, this type of hardware authenticator is relevant in two ways. First, it offers a path away from knowledge-based authentication that is increasingly vulnerable to data breaches and social engineering. Second, when combined with public-key infrastructure and device attestation, it gives organisations more confidence that the entity logging in is a genuine, unmodified device under the control of the intended user, rather than a virtual machine or remote-desktop session controlled by an attacker. The fact that Indian vendors are now shipping such devices at scale also hints at a larger export market for strong authentication in the Global South.
Sources: Mettlesemi, Fingerprint Cards
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By Ji-seo Kim
