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

TechCrunch

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

TechCrunch

Web3Auth builds on this infrastructure to make Web3 authentication — including password-less auth, SMS auth, or other OAuth methods like Google, Twitter, Discord and Reddit – in apps and wallets simple and intuitive to use. It is also designed to give more advanced users the ability to connect the wallet or key management system. “We

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When voice deepfakes come calling

CIO

And if they werent, multi-factor authentication (MFA), answers to security questions, and verbal passwords would solve the issue. Navigating IVR According to an analysis of call center deepfake attacks, a primary method favored by fraudsters is using voice deepfakes to successfully move through IVR-based authentication.

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Xeal raises $11M to expand its digital token payment system for EV chargers

TechCrunch

Electric vehicle charging companies depend on reliable internet access to sell electricity to customers, track usage data, authenticate users and receive over-the-air updates. This is the point at which the system authenticates the user. If a WiFi connection is unreliable, drivers could find themselves in a sticky situation. “If

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

Key management system. User authentication and advanced security factors. 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. Enterprise features. Flexibility and scalability.

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Silverfort nabs $65M with a ‘holistic’ approach to protecting ID management across IT silos and legacy systems

TechCrunch

Identity management is at the heart of how a lot of organizations aim to keep their systems secure, but that leaves a big question unanswered: how secure is the identity management system overall, and what about all the gaps that are not covered?

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Rails 8.0: No PaaS Required

Ruby on Rails

It has virtually all the features you could want from a modern job queuing system. As the new asset pipeline it replaces the old Sprockets system, which hails from all the way back in 2009. Generating the authentication basics Finally, making it easier to go to production also means we ought to make it easy to be secure.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.