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How a Password Manager Helps Prevent a Data Breach
A business password manager is the best first line of defense against a data breach. By encouraging and enabling employees to change their poor security and password behavior, a password manager minimizes your organization’s attack surface and strengthens one of your biggest vulnerabilities. After all, your security is only as strong as your employee’s weakest […]
How Dashlane Uses Agile and OKR to Scale Product and Growth
Dashlane’s CTO shares how Agile, Scrum, and OKRs helped scale engineering and align teams around business goals.
10 Reasons Why Biometrics Won’t Replace Passwords Anytime Soon
Originally posted April 24, 2015 A few weeks ago, our weekly Dashlane Tech Check featured a brand-new discovery: “Lip Motion Passwords” could be the future of biometric authentication. Lip Motion Passwords authenticate a person by using the unique motion of their lips as they say a particular word or phrase. Unlike your fingerprint or iris scanners, […]
Express Day at Dashlane: How We Built a Dozen Features Within a Day
At Dashlane, we think autonomy and innovation are key factors for success. Autonomy of teams and autonomy of people allow us to reduce waste and increase team satisfaction, for example, by not validating every decision with the top management. We also believe that autonomy is required for innovation. People & teams can only innovate if […]
Dashlane Security Updates
We address a Fraunhofer Institute report on Android password manager vulnerabilities that were fixed in an October 2016 update.
Naughty or Nice? Here’s How to Tell If an E-Commerce Website is Legit
We all want to find the sweetest deal on best name-brand clothes, sleek new toys, and the hottest tech gadgets on the market. But do you really know if that online shopping website is just selling you a bag of coal? According to Forbes, retailers are projecting that online fraud attempts will increase 43 percent […]
Password Managers are a Top Cyber Security Tool for Critical Infrastructure Systems
A cyber security researcher on a jet hacks into flight controls via its in-flight information system. A practical joker cracks the code for programming electronic highway road signs. An organized crime group hides drugs in an ocean shipper’s legitimate cargo and uses hackers to gain data needed to steal the cargo containers in port. […]
What is the Internet of Things and How Safe Is It?
Back in prehistoric times, cave people must have gazed at a fire with wonder while thinking, “Is it safe?” The answer, of course, was “It depends.” Safety precautions are necessary for every new tool. Today, if you use any kind of digital technology connected via wireless technology to the Internet, including cell phones, computers, pet […]
DDoS Attacks Are Crippling Twitter, Amazon, and Reddit. Here’s How.
Updated 10/24/2016 On Friday, October 21, Twitter, Spotify, Reddit, AirBnb, Github, and several major websites reported outages due to a Distributed Denial of Service attack (DD0S). Here’s what you need to know about the attack and how to protect yourself. Wait, what exactly happened? On the morning of October 21, several prominent websites were taken […]
11 Things Employees Won’t Miss After Using a Password Manager
When it comes to passwords, most of your employees believe they are protected by storing countless iterations of username and password combinations in their heads—but with password rules becoming increasingly complex, it’s becoming nearly impossible to rely on memory these days. Faced with multiple complex passwords to remember, employees resort to pen and paper—or worse, […]
5 Things Your New Employees Need to Know About Cyber Security from Week One
If you’re a CEO or IT administrator, you’ll need to spruce up on cyber security training before indoctrinating new hires. If the latest Yahoo data breach proved anything, it’s that today’s cyber threats are terrifyingly real. That said, 2016 has come with a slew of new cyber threats and surprising avenues of danger. If there’s […]
How Employees, Passwords, and Network Vulnerabilities Can Cost Your Business Millions
This summer, IBM and Ponemon Institute published a startling global study on how much data breaches cost businesses per year. With approximately 90 percent of cybersecurity incidents affecting small businesses and 1 in 5 companies having experienced a security breach thus far this year, this study illustrates how three major security vulnerabilities lead data breaches […]