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The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) welcomes MIRACL as part of their Cyber Runway programme. MIRACL Trust, an innovative single-step multi-factor authentication technology, exemplifies the DCMS cyber first initiative.…

Rite Aid offers in store employees multi-factor authentication that does not need a second device or mobile. MIRACL Trust allows employees to gain access to L&D solutions through a single-step PIN pad.…

<p><img src="/assets/images/miracl-blog-higher-ed-conf.png" alt="Higher Education Conference Logo" title="Higher Education Conference Logo"></p> <p>The Higher Education Conference provides UK-based university leaders and innovative education suppliers the chance to meet, network, and discuss solutions to the challenges facing the sector. The event brought together over 500 senior decision-makers from Universities to tackle the biggest operational, financial, and social challenges in the sector.</p> <p>This year’s event took place last Thursday and, despite being online, MIRACL was delighted to be able to attend.</p>…

<p><img src="/assets/images/miracl-blog-m-pin-2.jpg" alt="Welcome Sign" title="Welcome Sign"></p> <p><strong><em>Earlier in the month we shared our thoughts on Zero Knowledge Proof, comparing it with Zero Trust and clarifying the significant difference between the two. Our Chief Crypto Officer is Dr Michael Scott. Having working in cryptography for over 30 years, and in fact, as one of the global leaders in this specific discipline, today he shares his in depth white paper on Zero Knowledge Proof. This in depth piece of writing explains exactly how MIRACL Trust works, and why it is the ideal low cost, secure authentication solution for scale.</em></strong></p>…

<p><img src="/assets/images/miracl-blog-zero-trust.jpg" alt="Zero Trust" title="Zero Trust"></p> <p><strong><em>One question we often come across is ‘what is Zero Trust’ and if it is related to a ‘Zero Knowledge Proof’? So, today, in his summer series of new, insightful blogs, the CCO at MIRACL, Michael Tanaka, explains all…</em></strong></p> <p>Like a lot of cyber security concepts, this one is relatively poorly understood yet actually quite simple in its goals.</p> <p>Historically security has been designed around a strong perimeter and similar to a turtle, a hard exterior keeps out the obvious attackers but unfortunately for the turtle, not every attack fits the defence. In fact most successful attacks purposefully circumvent the defence. Being an animal lover, I’ll try to avoid a metaphorical slaughter of a turtle in the rest of this article but let’s be frank, turtles die of a lot more than old age.</p>…

<p><img src="/assets/images/miracl-blog-microsoft-for-startups.jpg" alt="Microsoft For Startups Logo" title="Microsoft For Startups Logo"></p> <p><strong>MIRACL has been accepted into ‘Microsoft for Startups’ – a dedicated world-wide programme that helps innovative and emerging businesses in the tech sector scale and grow into the next big thing. With a network of powerful influencers and support from this global tech giant it absolutely helps to enable ideas become rapidly successful.</strong></p> <p>Rob Griffin, CEO, MIRACL comments, “<em>MIRACL has been proving its success over the last few years building a suite of credible and enviable customers from Credit Agricole to Experian but to be included in the Microsoft for Startups programme is great news. We certainly look forward to maximising opportunities within the structure of the collaboration. We’re great believers in supporting innovation and are delighted to be a part of this ambitious community</em>.”</p>…

<p><img src="/assets/images/miracl-blog-passwordless-day-banner.png" alt="Worlds 1st Passwordless Day" title="Worlds 1st Passwordless Day"></p> <p><strong>MIRACL is calling out to the verification industry and all those championing a passwordless future to join together today, the 23rd June 2021, to highlight the ineffectiveness of the traditional ‘password’ and collectively ensure they are condemned to history.</strong></p> <p>Working in collaboration with MIRACL, businesses are asked to share their thoughts about passwords to collectively create effective online noise – on a day that has been labelled the first ever Passwordless Day in response to Password Day that was celebrated earlier in May.</p>…

<p><img src="/assets/images/miracl-blog-cashfac.png" alt="Cashfac Company Logo" title="Cashfac Company Logo"></p> <p><strong>MIRACL creates new partnership with Cashfac – a global pioneer of cash management software</strong></p> <p>Cashfac is a global provider of back office operational cash management software, including the world’s most deployed virtual accounts solution. Delivered both through their bank partners and direct-to-customer, their systems help hundreds of organisations improve the productivity, visibility, automation and regulatory compliance of their cash management operations. Due to the critical nature of the Cashfac service, secure Authentication is of paramount importance to its customers.</p>…

<p><img src="/assets/images/miracl-blog-university.jpg" alt=""></p> <p><em>In a series of new, insightful blogs this summer, the CCO at MIRACL, Michael Tanaka, takes time to reflect on some of the challenges organisations face with authentication processes - and considers how MIRACL could be the solution.</em></p> <p><em>In today’s post he considers the role of passwords, why they are still so commonly used - especially in the public sector – and what a cost effective, easily deployed alternative might look like.</em></p>…

<p><img src="/assets/images/miracl-blog-gdpr-anniversary-day-logo.png" alt="GDPR 3rd Anniversary" title="GDPR 3rd Anniversary"></p> <p><strong>As we reach the third anniversary of GDPR what does it mean today? And how can we avoid unwanted fines?</strong></p> <p><strong>Read on to discover the eye-watering fines that have been issued in the last couple of years, and understand how removing customer data from your verification process might be just the answer.</strong></p> <p>From 1 January 2021 the Brexit transition period ended. The EU GDPR no longer directly applied in the UK any more. However, as the GDPR has now been incorporated into UK domestic law, known as the “UK GDPR” companies are still obliged to conform. Equally, trading with any European organisation, even if you are based outside Europe, you still have to comply.</p>…

<p><img src="/assets/images/miracl-blog-mylottohub.png" alt=""></p> <p><strong>MIRACL Gaming Solutions announces partnership with MYLOTTOHUB.com</strong></p> <p>MYLOTTOHUB.com, a growing online African lotteries gaming site, has announced MIRACL Trust®️ as the player authentication solution for their gaming platform to enable good security and seamless authentication. MIRACL Gaming Solutions can uniquely offer the security, scalability and zero-friction user-flow critical for gaming businesses. Not only will MIRACL®️ provide market leading security against both internal and external threats, it will ensure that MYLOTTOHUB.com will meet and exceed current standards for Strong Customer Authentication under NDPR (Nigeria’s Data Protection Regulation) and PSD2 (Payment Services Directive).</p>…

<p><img src="/assets/images/miracl-blog-domino-s.jpg" alt="Domino’s Pizza Store" title="Domino's Pizza Store"></p> <p><strong>MIRACL® has recently signed a contract with pizza empire Domino’s, operating in Mauritius. For the foreseeable future its employees will be authenticating into Adobe Captivate Prime using MIRACL Trust ID® – no employee personal data is stored whilst running the service, and employees can authenticate securely, in record breaking time, using a simple PIN.</strong></p> <p>MIRACL® provides an ultra-secure authentication solution for its partners – with no data stored or transferred the risk of a data breach is eradicated and, with its seamless PIN based multi-factor authentication in 2.5 seconds, the user experience is simple, easy and hassle-free.</p>…