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What is Customer SSO and Why Should You Implement it?

Learn more about the advantages of Single Sign-On for your customers and how your business can benefit from a unified login experience.

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Social Login - Why You Should Implement It

Learn how to easily enable social login in your website or app to increase conversion rate and deliver smoother user experience.

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Password Spraying: What It Is and How to Prevent It?

Learn more about password spraying and the different methods to protect your users from it with Authgear.

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What Is Session Management: Threats and Best Practices

Session management involves managing requests between a user and web-based app or service. Learn about best practices of session management and the attacks associated with it.

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Authentication vs. Authorization: The Differences in One Table

Learn more about the differences between authentication and authorization, two important security processes, with one simple table.

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Insurance IAM: How It Helps Acquire More Clients and Facilitate Collaboration?

IAM does more than just enhancing data security for insurance companies. IAM also helps acquire and retain more users and facilitate collaboration with external team members for insurance. See how IAM achieves these with our guide.

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Credential Stuffing: What It Is and How to Prevent It?

Credential stuffing is a type of cyberattack involving use of stolen credentials and bots to gain access to user accounts. Learn more about it and how to prevent it with Authgear.

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Broken Authentication: What Is It and How to Prevent It

Broken authentication is one of the OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities that involves hackers impersonating users to compromise data security. See what the causes are and how to avoid broken authentication.

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Extended Enterprise and Identity & Access Management: The Challenges & Solutions

Extended enterprise, including customers, partners, contractors, etc., poses some new identity & access challenges for businesses. Learn more about the challenges and solutions.

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Authentication-as-a-Service: What Is It and Why You Need It

By integrating their apps or software with authentication-as-a-service solution, businesses can provide frictinoless signup/login experiences and more

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4 Things We Learned Supporting Passkeys

Passkeys have the potential to completely replace passwords, but it isn't perfect yet. Learn more about what you might encounter when supporting them.

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Passkeys Compatibility: Which Platforms Support Passkeys?

Passkeys are now supported by iOS, macOS, Chrome and Android. Learn more about passkeys and their compatibility with major browsers and platforms.

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Tech Giants Take One Step Closer to a Future without Passwords

Apple, Google, and Microsoft have committed to make passwords a thing of the past, taking another step towards a future without passwords.

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What Is SMS Authentication and Should You Implement It?

SMS authentication is one of the most common methods of authentication that verifies user identity via text messages.

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Is SMS OTP Reliable? Its Vulnerabilities and Alternatives

Learn more about what makes SMS OTP so popular, how SMS OTP works, its risks, and alternatives to better protect your users.

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Web Application Authentication: How It Works and How to Implement It

In this guide, you'll learn more about how authentication in web app works and how to implement it with Authgear.

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How to Increase Marketing ROI with WhatsApp Marketing

Marketing on WhatsApp is a more cost-effective and efficient way to promote your brands, increase marketing ROI, and engage with your customers.

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Why You Need Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM)?

Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) does more than managing and verifying users’ identities. See why you need a CIAM solution.

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Sign Up Form Best Practices: Skyrocket Your App Conversion Rate

Explore the top 5 sign up page optimization techniques to maximize the sign up rate for your apps and grow your user base.

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The Right to Erasure and How You Can Follow It for Your Apps

Under GDPR, users of mobile apps or software are entitled to have their data removed. This is known as the right to erasure or right to be forgotten.

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Password Hashing and Salting Explained

Learn more about password hashing and salting to better protect your users' passwords from malicious attacks.

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Web Application Authentication Best Practices in 2022

Learn more about what to keep in mind to ensure data security for your web apps.

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Passwordless Authentication: All You Need to Know For Better Security

Learn more about why passwordless authentication has been adopted by all industries and how you can implement it with ease.

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Biometric Authentication: Why Do Your Applications Need It in 2023?

Biometric authentication provides better data security and user experience for users. Learn more about the different biometric authentication methods.

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In-App Account Deletion Required by App Store Starting June 30, 2022

Apple will soon require apps to allow users to initiate account deletion. Learn more about the upcoming policy and how you can prepare for it.

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How to protect your users from automated attacks

Let’s explore the best ways to protect your users from the rapidly evolving menace of automated attacks.

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Session vs Token Authentication

Sessions and Tokens, which of these authentication methods best suits your website or application? Let’s find out.

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Authentication Security: Password Reset Best Practices and More

We aggregated a series of notable ‘traps’ below. We’ll go through each of them, identify possible security breaches and issues, and fix them.

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What Is Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) And How Does It Work?

The fact is, if you aren’t using multi-factor authentication (MFA), then your accounts are not as secure as you think.

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Send OTP on WhatsApp 2022

OTPs are essential to verify transactions and logins. In Authgear, you can send OTPs with the messenger services they are familiar with.