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Our first Stytch Talk webinar was all about optimizing user sign-up and login flows to drive key metrics like conversion rates, lower acquisition costs, and lifetime value. Earlier this month, Stytch’s co-founder and CEO Reed McGinley-Stempel sat down with Brian Hale, VP of consumer product and growth at DoorDash, to discuss how companies can turn …

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Identity and access management (IAM) is a broad term used to describe how organizations manage individuals and devices and control access to sensitive resources. With IAM, an organization can authenticate digital identities, define which assets they can access, and manage these relationships over time.  In an increasingly online world — with more users, more devices, …

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Data breaches have been in the headlines for several years, representing a rational fear for many organizations. A data breach is when someone — typically a hacker — gains unauthorized access to sensitive or confidential information. Hackers may do this for numerous reasons, including damaging the organization or its reputation, selling the retrieved data, or …

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Today, humans only make up 38.5% of internet traffic. The other 61.5% is non-human (bots, hacking tools, etc).  When you consider how pervasive non-human traffic is on the web and the potential threat this bot activity can pose to companies (brute forcing users’ passwords to steal their accounts, executing scripts to buy out concert tickets …

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Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a key tool for companies looking to elevate users’ account security, helping to mitigate credential stuffing attacks and prevent account takeover fraud. Sometimes used interchangeably with the term two-factor authentication (or 2FA), MFA involves a layered approach to confirming a user’s identity to ensure they have permission to access a protected …

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Over the past decade, digital transformation has touched every part of our lives. Even companies that have historically provided analog services to users (e.g. shipping) have had to adjust to this digital transformation – that’s because consumers expect to be able to access and act upon information with the digital devices in their pockets and …

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Passwords remain the most common method of user authentication. Yet, they’re not the most secure. One solution to certain security concerns with password authentication involves hashing, a form of one-way encryption that transforms one string of characters in a password into a completely different string using a mathematical hashing function.  To improve the safety of …

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