![]() That’s credit cards, it's driver's licenses, it's passports, it's all of that information. ![]() There's one side that says, anything that I want to keep available, yet private or secure, I want to put in 1Password. ![]() Is that too big a vision? Is that the wrong vision? And some of them will work.Īs you've gotten into things like virtual credit cards and the partnership with Fastmail to hide people’s emails, there's a version of 1Password that I can imagine thinking of itself as my identity layer to the internet, where I just put all my information in it, and then trust 1Password to dole it out in the right way. But the reality is they've gone onto the web, they've grabbed a million people's username and password, and they're just trying them. But if you're using the same credentials on accounts that do matter, that's where people are going to try credential-stuffing attacks or things like that.Īnd I think what we see in the news is we see a lot of the breaches, or we see a lot of the attacks, and we sit there and think of them as these deep technical intrusions. And we don't really mind in the grand scheme of things. And one of those accounts that we've got there, maybe it’s our cat-picture-sharing site, that may get hacked. And then we'll use fluffycat1 and 2, and fluffycat3. We're going to use fluffycat for our password, because it's convenient. They're just logging in to somebody else's account with their credentials, right? Again, human beings were not meant to be good at security. We like to say people aren't hacking, they're just logging in. But by far and away, most of the breaches happen from just password reuse. They think that they're these big, huge hacks - and some of them are, nationstates or things like that, that come in and do this. Very few people outside of the security world really think about it that way. I like to say, “protect your business by securing the people who work there.”ĭo you think people intellectually understand that that's the truth? That most of these things are not big, sophisticated, network-level hacks, most of it is like, “I got your password from a phishing scam or grabbing it from some big data breach because you use the same password for everything.” Like, I know that intellectually, but I don't know that I've internalized that that's actually how security works on the internet. ![]() And so with 1Password, partially because of our consumer origins but even to this day, we're there to protect the person. But then if you think of it in terms of, where do most data breaches originate? At the person. It's important, it does a good job, and it stays at the infrastructure layer. And so if we look at it from a business point of view, most of the security software is actually at the infrastructure layer. We're here to ease the tension between security and convenience, something that has just always been a challenge. I talk about it in terms of human-centric security. But my sense is the vision is much bigger than that now. And when 1Password started, that’s all it was. When I think of 1Password, it's … a password manager. Subscribe to the show: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Overcast | Pocket Casts Below are excerpts from our conversation, edited for length and clarity. You can hear our full conversation on the latest episode of the Source Code podcast, or by clicking on the player above. In its place, Shiner said he hopes 1Password can help usher in a better, and more secure, system. There’s really no other choice: Thanks to an increase in remote work, the overwhelming consumerization of business software, and a litany of new security problems around the industry, the days of “just log in to the VPN” are dying and not coming back. More broadly, Shiner said he wants to help companies and users alike rethink how security works. 1Password already has more than 100,000 business customers, and it plans to expand fast. 1Password has long been a consumer-first product, but the biggest opportunity lies in bringing the company’s knowhow, its user experience, and its security chops into the business world. He’s building the team fast - 1Password has tripled in size in the last two years, up to 500 employees, and plans to double again this year - while also expanding the vision of what a password manager can do. The company just announced it has raised $620 million, at a valuation of $6.8 billion, from a roster of A-list celebrities and well-known venture capitalists.īut what does a password manager need with $620 million? Jeff Shiner, 1Password’s CEO, has some plans.
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