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AWS brings Amazon One palm-scanning authentication to the enterprise

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Amazon’s cloud computing subsidiary AWS (Amazon Web Services) has lifted the lid on a new palm-scanning identity service that allows companies to authenticate people when entering physical premises. Amazon One Enterprise, as the […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Ex-Plaid employees raise $30M for Stytch, an API-first passwordless authentication platform

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One such company, Stytch , just raised $30 million in a Series A round of funding as it launches out of beta with its API-first passwordless authentication platform. Enterprise security attackers are one password away from your worst day. The round caught our attention for a couple of reasons.

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Passwordless authentication startup Descope lands whopping $53M seed round

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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. Capital might be harder to come by than it once was in startup land, but some firms are bucking the trend — hard. So why launch Descope now?

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Bitwarden acquires Passwordless.dev to help companies authenticate users without passwords

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Open source password management platform Bitwarden has made its first known acquisition, snapping up a fledgling Sweden-based startup called Passwordless.dev , which specializes in helping developers integrate passwordless authentication technology into their software. The password problem. Image Credits: Passwordless.dev.

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The Modern Encryption Software Checklist: The Secret to Understanding Your Data Security Needs

User authentication and advanced security factors. Enterprise features. The following checklist is built to help you evaluate the scope of services offered by various encryption solutions on the market and covers questions on the following topics: Encryption. Key management system. Flexibility and scalability.

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IT leaders brace for the AI agent management challenge

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With AI agents poised to take over significant portions of enterprise workflows, IT leaders will be faced with an increasingly complex challenge: managing them. If I am a large enterprise, I probably will not build all of my agents in one place and be vendor-locked, but I probably dont want 30 platforms.

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Automate actions across enterprise applications using Amazon Q Business plugins

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Amazon Q Business is a generative AI-powered assistant that enhances employee productivity by solving problems, generating content, and providing insights across enterprise data sources. In this post, we explore how Amazon Q Business plugins enable seamless integration with enterprise applications through both built-in and custom plugins.