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 …
I’m often asked by other founders about Stytch’s seed fundraising experience and what advice I’d give to other early-stage founders navigating the process today. While the overall fundraising environment has shifted in recent months, I think my advice for approaching a seed fundraise still fundamentally applies in the current market. I wanted to take a …
On June 22nd, 2022 Stytch co-founder Julianna Lamb presented on the API economy at Collision, one of North America’s largest tech conferences. Her presentation inspired this article — watch it here. Stytch is an API-first company. That means we build and perfect turnkey, easy-to-integrate authentication solutions — so you don’t have to. But we’re just …
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What do you love most about working at Stytch? Aiden (AF): As the first brand designer, I love that I helped build the brand and that I get to continue to grow and evolve it — basically I get to do what I love every day! I also love that at Stytch, we have built …
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As a GTM lead at Stytch, I see many customers migrating to our platform from AWS Amazon Cognito — and many more potential customers thinking about making the switch. It’s not hard to see why. Much like Stytch, Amazon Cognito provides authentication, authorization, and user management solutions for web and mobile applications. But unlike Stytch, …
Co-founders Roberto Rey and Walter González Domenzain started Boletomóvil for a simple reason: they love sports, but buying tickets for a game in Mexico — even through an online system like Ticketmaster — involved a multi-step process that made users jump between digital and physical points of sale. They decided Mexico needed an easy, fully …
Building a product that requires passwords for user authentication means that you need to implement a method to verify your users’ passwords. However, storing plaintext passwords in your database comes with significant security risks. Holding this data opens your app up to risk if your database gets breached. Hackers — who can be rogue employees …
Despite its many benefits, digital transformation introduces numerous security challenges. Sensitive data stored in the cloud is especially susceptible to attacks. Cybercriminals use several approaches to gain unauthorized access to such data. Password spraying is one of the most effective, threatening approaches. While sometimes confused with credential stuffing, password spraying represents a different attack vector …
Today, we’re introducing a password-based authentication solution, rebooted for the modern era. Stytch was founded with the mission of eliminating friction on the internet. Authentication today is a frustrating experience for both developers and users and we set out to fix that. We’ve reimagined what password-based authentication can look like and believe that introducing Passwords …
Stytch was founded with the mission of eliminating friction on the internet. The first major source of friction we’ve tackled? Password-based authentication. We’ve consistently highlighted the many ways passwords contribute to database hacks and account breaches — not to mention the friction and frustration they cause for users, who are forced to memorize dozens (if …
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