Trusona：获融$20M 身份认证

【200114 Venturebeat】Trusona, a security and authentication platform that helps businesses verify logins without relying on passwords, has raised $20 million in a round of funding led by Georgian Partners, with participation from Microsoft’s M12, Kleiner Perkins, OurCrowd, Seven Peaks Ventures, and Akamai.

【谷歌翻译 未经校对】Trusona是一个安全和身份验证平台，可帮助企业在不依赖密码的情况下验证登录，该公司在由乔治亚州合作伙伴牵头的一轮融资中筹集了2000万美元，微软M12，Kleiner Perkins，OurCrowd，Seven Peaks Ventures和Akamai参与了此次融资。

Poor password hygiene is a major driving force behind identity theft and security breaches — particularly in businesses, where 81% of all breaches are said to be due to compromised passwords. The underlying problem is that people are not that great at remembering lots of passwords so they often reuse the same password across multiple online services or use a really easy-to-guess password. Sometimes both.

不良的密码卫生是造成身份盗用和安全漏洞的主要驱动力，尤其是在企业中，据称所有此类漏洞中有81％是由于密码泄露所致。潜在的问题是人们在记住大量密码方面并不那么擅长，因此他们经常在多个在线服务中重复使用相同的密码，或者使用真正易于猜测的密码。有时两者兼而有之。

Founded in 2015, Scottsdale, Arizona-based Trusona provides organizations with the tools to verify their employees or customers more securely, without having to rely on passwords. This may involve biometrics, QR codes, document scanning, and more.

Trusona成立于2015年，总部位于亚利桑那州的斯科茨代尔，为组织提供了无需依赖密码即可更安全地验证其员工或客户的工具。这可能涉及生物识别，QR码，文档扫描等。

Given that more people have become accustomed to frictionless sign-up and login flows with all the big mobile app providers, anything less can come across as a subpar experience. What Trusona offers via a software development kit (SDK) is the opportunity for any developer to integrate the experience customers are coming to expect into their own app.

鉴于越来越多的人已经习惯了与所有大型移动应用程序提供商进行顺畅的注册和登录流程，因此，体验不到一切都会遇到很多困难。Trusona通过软件开发工具包（SDK）提供的产品为任何开发人员提供了将客户期望的体验集成到他们自己的应用程序中的机会。

“We are on a mission to make the online world a safer place by turning usernames and passwords into memories and eliminating compromised credentials,” said Trusona CEO and founder Ori Eisen.

Trusona首席执行官兼创始人Ori Eisen表示：“我们的使命是通过将用户名和密码转化为记忆，并消除受到破坏的凭据，从而使在线世界变得更加安全。”

Trusona had previously raised around $18 million, including a $10 million funding tranche that was led by Microsoft’s VC arm back in 2017. With another $20 million in the bank, the company said it plans to work on new products and expand its existing services to new businesses.

Trusona此前已筹集了大约1800万美元，其中包括2017年由微软风险投资部门牵头的1000万美元资金。另外，该银行还拥有2000万美元的资金，该公司表示计划开发新产品并将现有服务扩展到新产品业务。

“This round of funding will not only help us meet the growth in demand for our passwordless authentication solutions but will also support new breakthrough innovations,” Eisen added.

Eisen补充说：“这一轮融资不仅将帮助我们满足对无密码身份验证解决方案的需求增长，还将支持新的突破性创新。”

Demand

Judging by recent activity, password management — which effectively moves passwords to the background of the authentication process — is big business. A few months back, popular password management service 1Password raised $200 million in the first round of funding in its 14-year history. Shortly before that, rival Dashlane raised $110 million. Elsewhere, Mozilla launched its Firefox Lockbox service for Android users, enabling them to log into native mobile apps using passwords that are already stored in their Firefox browser, while VPN giant NordVPN launched a password management app of its very own.

从最近的活动来看，将密码有效地转移到身份验证过程的后台的密码管理是一项大生意。几个月前，流行的密码管理服务1Password在其14年的历史中的第一轮融资中筹集了2亿美元。在此之前不久，竞争对手Dashlane筹集了1.1亿美元。在其他地方，Mozilla为Android用户启动了Firefox Lockbox服务，使他们能够使用已存储在Firefox浏览器中的密码登录本地移动应用程序，而VPN巨头NordVPN推出了自己的密码管理应用程序。

Global demand for password management solutions in mobile devices amounted to less than $115 million in 2016, according to a report from Grand View Research. But Grand View estimates that the figure will rise to more than $2 billion by 2025. Similarly, Gartner predicts that by 2022, 60% of large and global enterprises, and 90% of midsize enterprises, will deploy passwordless verification methods such as biometric authentication “in more than 50% of use cases” — up from 5% in 2018.

根据Grand View Research的报告，2016年全球对移动设备密码管理解决方案的需求不到1.15亿美元。但据Grand View估计，到2025年，这一数字将增加到20亿美元以上。同样，Gartner预测，到2022年，将有60％的大型和全球企业以及90％的中型企业部署无密码验证方法，例如生物特征认证“在超过50％的用例中”，高于2018年的5％。

Trusona said it’s seeing “unprecedented demand” from enterprises seeking passwordless login technologies, which was also evident in the strategic investment made by Akamai, a U.S.-based content delivery network (CDN), edge platform provider, and cybersecurity company.

Trusona表示，寻求无密码登录技术的企业看到了“前所未有的需求”，这也体现在美国内容交付网络（CDN）Akamai，边缘平台提供商和网络安全公司的战略投资中。

“We are seeing increasing demand for passwordless authentication because of how it simplifies and improves the user login experience,” said Rick McConnell, president and general manager of Akamai’s web division. “Trusona’s unique approach complements what Akamai does to register and manage customer identities, allowing our customers to offer great online experiences while reducing fraud and achieving compliance with growing regulatory requirements.”

Akamai网站部门总裁兼总经理Rick McConnell表示：“由于无密码身份验证可以简化和改善用户登录体验，因此我们对无密码身份验证的需求正在增加。” “ Trusona独特的方法补充了Akamai注册和管理客户身份的工作，使我们的客户能够提供出色的在线体验，同时减少欺诈并实现对不断增长的法规要求的遵守。”

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