Security & Resilience

In an era where personal information is no longer private and passwords are commonly reused, stolen or cracked, the traditional method of protecting access to data and services by username and password has repeatedly proven to be inadequate. Keyless is a team of scientists and entrepreneurs pioneering a solution to this large-scale structural issue of the internet. The Keyless team have built a novel biometric authentication platform that eliminates the need for businesses to store and manage passwords, biometric data, cryptographic keys and other sensitive personal information, without compromising on convenience and privacy for their employees or end-users. We’re pumped to watch the Keyless team build the future of authentication.

Edgeless Systems is building an open-source framework to enable secure communications for the next generation of confidential computing. Confidential computing is a cloud computing technology that isolates sensitive data in encrypted and verifiable CPU enclaves (i.e. hardware) during processing. The contents of the enclave, including the data being processed and the techniques used to process it, are accessible only to authorised programming code, remaining invisible to anything or anyone else, including cloud providers.

Hats.finance is a proactive bounty protocol for white hat hackers and auditors, where projects, community members, and stakeholders incentivise protocol security and responsible disclosure. Hats create scalable vaults using the project’s own token. The value of the bounty increases with the success of the token and project. In addition, prolific NFT artists have pledged assistance and will create numerous unique NFTs that will be minted specially for hackers and auditors that responsibly disclose vulnerabilities.

Cakewalk addresses a global problem that SMBs increasingly face: While adopting novel applications can make them stronger, it often comes at a significant cost – a growing loss of control. Cakewalk tackles this challenge with its design-first Identity & Access Management solution, allowing fast-moving companies to regain control over the software applications their employees use.