security

Auth specific scaling challenges

Modern authentication is built on hashing passwords using computationally expensive algorithms. Because of this intense CPU usage, there's a push-pull...

How to enable breached password detection with FusionAuth

While there are many ways for people to authenticate with online systems, usernames and passwords are still commonly used credentials. Unfortunately, many...

FusionAuth Snags Identity and Access Management Product of the Year

User Data Security is a Breach

If you follow us on Twitter (if you don't, you can fix that now) you'll see that we post about data security breaches hitting the internet community. We don't...

Stop Storing My Plaintext Password

Believe it or not there are still companies emailing users with plaintext passwords. Worse yet, some systems are storing plaintext passwords in the database...

6 Ways The FusionAuth API Is GDPR Ready

The GDPR is a complex regulation, but at its most basic level it requires organizations to provide "data protection by design and default." FusionAuth is built...