1Password Secrets Automation helps businesses secure and manage secrets

1Password launched Secrets Automation, a new way to easily secure, manage and orchestrate the rapidly expanding infrastructure secrets required in a modern enterprise. Secrets such as corporate credentials, API tokens, keys and certificates can number … Continue reading 1Password Secrets Automation helps businesses secure and manage secrets

I’ve Joined the 1Password Board of Advisers

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Almost a decade ago now, I wrote what would become one of my most career-defining blog posts: The Only Secure Password is the One You Can’t Remember. I had come to the realisation that I simply had too many accounts across too many systems to ever have any chance of

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1Password and Privacy.com let consumers create virtual cards to ensure safe online payments

Two companies founded on security and privacy are partnering to make online payments quicker and safer. Password manager 1Password and virtual card platform Privacy.com announced an API integration that lets users create virtual cards in their browser … Continue reading 1Password and Privacy.com let consumers create virtual cards to ensure safe online payments

How do I select a password management solution for my business?

91 percent of people know that using the same password on multiple accounts is a security risk, yet 66 percent continue to use the same password anyway. IT security practitioners are aware of good habits when it comes to strong authentication and passw… Continue reading How do I select a password management solution for my business?

25% of IT workers don’t enforce security policies

14% of IT workers are consumed with Identity and Access Management (IAM), spending at least an hour per day on routine IAM tasks, according to 1Password. IAM continues to be a significant productivity bog for IT and employees alike, with 57% of IT work… Continue reading 25% of IT workers don’t enforce security policies

Some commercial password managers vulnerable to attack by fake apps

Security experts recommend using a complex, random and unique password for every online account, but remembering them all would be a challenging task. That’s where password managers come in handy. Encrypted vaults are accessed by a single master … Continue reading Some commercial password managers vulnerable to attack by fake apps

Shadow IT accounts with weak passwords endanger organizations

63% of enterprise professionals have created at least one account without their IT department being aware of it, and two-thirds of those have created two or more, the results of a recent 1Password survey have revealed. Even more worryingly, only 2.6% o… Continue reading Shadow IT accounts with weak passwords endanger organizations

Dashlane spends big on a Super Bowl ad after $110 million fundraising round

Yes, that commercial about an average guy trying to cross the river Styx during halftime at the Super Bowl was for a cybersecurity company. Sandwiched between the first half of the game and Jennifer Lopez’s halftime performance was a minute-long ad for Dashlane, a password management company that was taking up time usually reserved for multi-billion dollar car companies or giant beer brewers. Founded in 2012, the company last year took on $110 million in a funding round led by the venture capital firm Sequoia, and added a chief marketing officer, Joy Howard, formerly of Lyft. In the spot that ran Sunday night, a Grim Reaper-like character is rowing an unlucky schlub toward heaven. But our hero is apparently doomed to eternal damnation when he can’t remember the answers to a series of security questions, demonstrating how knowledge-based authentication is frustrating and not all that secure. Flush with cash, Dashlane […]

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