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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. Lamb says that as she and McGinley-Stempel worked together at Plaid on user authentication, they realized how frustrating it is to build sign-up and login flows. “In

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Web3Auth secures $13M from Sequoia India to simplify crypto onboarding and authentication

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Web3Auth, a non-custodial key infrastructure solution for Web3 apps and wallets, wants to solve these problems by leveraging social accounts and devices that mainstream users already own to enable users to manage their keys intuitively. “Non-custodial authentication space. authentication space. “We Image Credits: Web3Auth.

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The evolving landscape of network security in 2025

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Continuous authentication and authorization will be enforced for every user and device, regardless of location, minimizing the impact of compromised credentials. Expect to see more sophisticated AI-driven security tools integrated directly into network infrastructure.

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Cross-Stack RDS User Provisioning and Schema Migrations with AWS Lambda

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However, other databases like MySQL also have an internal authentication method. This will reduce the maintenance load on your application and its infrastructure. Conclusion Splitting infrastructure into multiple stacks keeps things organized, but it also introduces challenges like managing database access and schema changes.

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Data center provider fakes Tier 4 data center certificate to bag $11M SEC deal

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An employee at Jain’s company reportedly prevented SEC representatives from viewing critical infrastructure that would have exposed the data center’s inability to meet Tier 4 standards, the court document shows. The certification authenticity forms a smaller part of overall final decision-making, said Gupta.

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IT leaders brace for the AI agent management challenge

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Unlike traditional user authentication, where identity is tied to an individual, AI agents act on behalf of users raising new questions about trust, permissions, and security boundaries, McGinley-Sempel says. We are in the early stages of the multi-agentic transformation of the enterprise. IT employees? Not so much.

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Smallstep takes big step toward authenticating machine-to-machine communications

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The central issue is that when there are no humans involved, how do you authenticate the hand-off between machines to ensure it’s going to the right place? The commercial part comes into play when companies want or need someone else to manage the underlying infrastructure for them.