Despite companies’ best efforts, stored access credentials inevitably get stolen or misused. Whether it is a disgruntled employee posting the data, an employee that makes an innocent mistake exposing that data, a company needing revenue selling the information, a criminal hacker group stealing the information, or a government-backed group stealing the information, etc. it is simply a matter of when not if that information will be stolen.
“The only truly safe way to handle people’s secrets is never to store them in the first place – what is not stored cannot be stolen,” says Tina Srivastava, Ph.D., an MIT-trained rocket scientist and privacy expert who has cracked the code on stored credentials She is the co-founder of Badge, a platform that allows users to enroll and authenticate on any device without storing Personally Identifiable Information (PII). In this episode, Tina and I discuss how the new technology works, its implications, and how organizations should ensure they are not storing user credentials.
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