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Identity authentication and fraud prevention company AuthenticID lands $100M

GeekWire

Founded in 2001, AuthenticID provides “identity proofing” software to U.S. Seattle-based AuthenticID landed $100 million in a minority investment from Long Ridge Equity Partners. wireless carriers, banks, credit bureaus, and other large enterprise companies.

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Stop using your phone number to log in

Vox

Even things that those services might recommend as an added security measure — like text, SMS, or multi-factor authentication — can actually introduce more vulnerabilities. Back in 2001 when I worked at Vodafone, we saw this problem coming,” said Marc Rogers, who is now chief security officer at the cybersecurity firm Q-Net Security.

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Spotlight on Cybersecurity Leaders: William Lidster

SecureWorld News

Answer : Cybersecurity became front-and-center for most organizations globally in 2001, and I was already dabbling in it as an additional consideration with my IT management duties. A : Outside of training and awareness, full-on MFA (multi-factor authentication). Get to know William Lidster.

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Women IT leaders on their climb to the top

CIO Business Intelligence

Lauderdale’s McKay says she didn’t have her sights on a CIO role when she started working for a local government agency in 2001; she simply wanted to “do a good job.” Debbie Stephens, deputy CIO, USPTO USPTO Ft. But I wasn’t there for that — I was managing an enterprise infrastructure team, which was a key component to the initiative.

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Tech Moves: Expedia board director Skip Battle resigns; Madrona promotions; Vacasa’s new CFO

GeekWire

Identity authentication startup Auth0, which raised a $120 million Series F round in July, added three new board members: • Former Hewlett Packard Enterprise Chief Sales and Marketing Officer Sue Barsamian. Last year was a busy year for smart home technology maker Wyze Labs. Former SendGrid CEO Sameer Dholakia.

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ChatGPT could make bioterrorism horrifyingly easy

Vox

Over the course of 2001, Rauf used his scientific credentials to make headway toward acquiring anthrax. This might require advancing ways for legitimate scientists to authenticate themselves online. It is not publicly known how far he got; he was arrested that December.

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The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP-18), Banff, Canada, October, 2001. Nov 9 - Using Encryption for Authentication in Large Networks of Computers , Roger M. Aug 17 - SEDA: An Architecture for Well-Conditioned, Scalable Internet Services , Matt Welsh, David Culler, and Eric Brewer.