We met while serving together in the prestigious 8200 IDF unit in leadership roles.
Later, we all worked at leading cyber security companies and got exposed to different perspectives of the industry.
We’ve known each other for a long time.
A few years ago, we identified a problem with the way authentication is handled today.
What’s unique about Silverfort?
This kind of integration and modification is not always feasible.
There are many occasions where you cannot implement authentication for a certain assets.
We believe that this approach that has been around for decades is not suitable anymore for corporate networks.
It doesnt make sense to let every server app machine handle multi factor authentication on its own.
The unique things that we can offer are:
How does Silverfort integrate with existing security solutions?
Altogether, I believe this is the next generation authentication solution.
What are some of the risks imposed by identity theft?
Passwords are being leveraged by attackers to compromise insider accounts and move laterally inside the web link.
Credentials are also leveraged by ransomware to reach target systems and encrypt corporate or individual files.
The fact credentials are easy to compromise has been well-known for many years.
They are also very easy to obtain through social engineering.
Passwords are vulnerable and are not enough to protect data.
Something beyond passwords is needed, which we call multi-factor authentication or adaptive authentication.
Its very difficult to accomplish this in large dynamic corporate environments that are changing all the time.
It’s not enough to do it on an individual program.
How do you foresee the future of multi-factor authentication?
I believe people would move to risk-based adaptive authentication rather than static policies to increase balance and productivity.
Mostly, I believe that the way authentication is delivered over the different systems and environments would be reinvented.
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