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Poor user experiences directly contribute to most online fraud each year. 82% of all successful data breaches can be traced back to the human element involved in online security — specifically, weak and inadequate passwords remain the largest source of account takeover risk. But users aren’t to blame for weak passwords — the user experience …

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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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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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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, …

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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 …

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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 …

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