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Cybersecurity is constantly changing making it difficult to ensure your data and passwords are secure.  As a consumer, it is becoming increasingly onerous to remember your password with the various password combination rules required.  As a business with a login page, the PR nightmare that ensues when a breach occurs makes it critical to have the proper cyber security plan in place.

For many years, best practice has been to protect passwords by using computational power to slow down the hashing process.  However, with all of the complex hashing techniques available today, one thing is forgotten; where the actual password is stored.  This is where BlindHash comes into play.  When BlindHash is implemented as an additional tool to your password security defense network, passwords become virtually impossible to be stolen via an offline dictionary attack.

SO WHY SHOULD YOU USE BLINDHASH? THE BETTER QUESTION IS ...

We are very excited to announce that we are a 2016 Platinum MassChallenge award recipient. BlindHash, a Taplink Company, was selected from 1,700 applicants and will receive a $75,000 cash prize. The announcement was made on Nov. 2nd at the annual MassChallenge Awards at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. Password database breaches continue to be an achilles heel for many large organizations. In September, Yahoo announced that hackers had stolen information from a minimum of 500 million accounts in late 2014, including passwords. Click here to read the full release.

This year’s Ponemon Institure study found the average consolidated total cost of a data breach grew from $3.8 million to $4 million. The study also reports that the average cost incurred for each lost or stolen record containing sensitive and confidential information increased from $154 to $158.  BlindHash can can help reduce your company's risk by eliminating the threat of an offline attack.  Click here to read the full Data Breach Report.