March 28, 2024

Web and Technology News

1Password’s new service lets businesses quickly adopt passkeys

Password manager 1Password today launched a new service, Passage by 1Password, that’s designed to allow businesses to build passkey authentication into their apps and websites without having to maintain their own security infrastructure. The rollout signals 1Password’s expansion beyond credential management and into the customer identity access management space. But it’s also on trend. Apple […]

1Password’s new service lets businesses quickly adopt passkeys by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Strivacity, which helps companies build secure login flows, nabs $20M

Identity and access security issues are increasingly top of mind for companies. According to a recent Verizon survey, 61% of all breaches now involve credentials — whether they be stolen via social engineering or hacked using brute force. It’s frustrating for users, too; a NordPass poll found that eight out of ten people find password […]

Strivacity, which helps companies build secure login flows, nabs $20M by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Passwordless authentication startup Descope lands whopping $53M seed round

Capital might be harder to come by than it once was in startup land, but some firms are bucking the trend — hard. Take Descope, for example, which today announced that it raised a whopping $53 million in seed funding for its “developer-first” authentication and user management platform. The money came from Lightspeed Venture Partners […]

Passwordless authentication startup Descope lands whopping $53M seed round by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

GitHub will require all users who contribute code to enable two-factor authentication by the end of 2023

Here is some news that is both straightforward and still a long time out but nevertheless important: by the end of 2023, GitHub will require all users who contribute code on the platform to enable one or more forms of two-factor authentication (2FA). And that’s pretty much it for the news. Today, the Microsoft-owned company […]

Teleport nabs $110M to provide identity-based infrastructure access

Teleport, a platform that assigns identities to hardware, software, and users to replace the need for passwords, today announced that it raised $110 million in a Series C fundraise at a $1.1 billion post-money valuation. Bessemer Venture Partners led the tranche with participation from Insight Partners, Kleiner Perkins, and S28 Capital, which brings Teleport’s total […]

Teleport nabs $110M to provide identity-based infrastructure access

Teleport, a platform that assigns identities to hardware, software, and users to replace the need for passwords, today announced that it raised $110 million in a Series C fundraise at a $1.1 billion post-money valuation. Bessemer Venture Partners led the tranche with participation from Insight Partners, Kleiner Perkins, and S28 Capital, which brings Teleport’s total […]

OwnID raises $6M to replace passwords with smartphone-based biometrics

The founders of OwnID, Dor Shany and Rooly Eliezerov, previously founded Gigya, a startup that wanted to make it easier to help identify customers. They sold that startup to SAP for $350 million in 2017, but the idea of making it easy to log into websites without friction was always in the back of their […]