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Passwords have been a staple for account identity verification for years, but with passwords continually reused or becoming easier to guess, users are realizing how vulnerable the tactic can be. More than half of IT professionals believe that eliminating passwords would improve the security of their organization.
Secret Double Octopus the pioneer of passwordless enterprise authentication, announced the closing of a $15 million Series B round to address the rapidly growing need for passwordless authentication and remote-access security in enterprise environments. Secret Double Octopus is considered a global leader in password elimination solutions.
Tel Aviv, Israel-based Secret Double Octopus has raised $15 million in a Series B funding round from Sony Financial Ventures, KDDI, and Global Brain as well as prior investors. The firm provides passwordless authentication for enterprises, and is eyeing the growing WFH market.
Idaptive, the leading provider of Identity and Access Management solutions, announced a major update to its Next-Gen Access platform that adds endpoint security and passwordless capabilities. Adaptive MFA adds an extra layer of protection before access to endpoints is granted - leveraging device, network, and user behavior context, Idaptive intelligently assigns risk to each login request, allowing organizations to create dynamic access policies that are triggered when anomalous behavior is detected.
LogMeIn announced the next major update to its recently released LastPass Identity solution that introduces new ways for an employee to access their work without needing to type a password. This...
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Mirko Zorz, Help Net Security’s Editor in Chief, recently published an article about the state of passwordless authentication that predicted a long journey before this technology is viable. We...
Whether you realize it or not, our current era of mobile and cloud computing can be defined, both positively and negatively, by shared secrets. Shared secrets — passwords, authentication, and...
The password has been one of the great inventions in the history of computing: a solution that allowed simple and effective identity and access management when the need arose for it....
MobileIron, the company that introduced the industry’s first mobile-centric, zero trust platform for the enterprise, announced the availability of zero sign-on technology for secure and...