Today marks the second year in Vidoop history and what an exciting two years it has been. We’ve managed to hire some of the best talent in the industry and launched what I believe to be a truly innovative technology called Vidoop ImageShield which is already being used by fortune 500 companies. [...]

This weekend (Saturday 3/29/2008 to be exact) we’ll be doing a demo of myVidoop and our ImageShield security technology during Startupalooza at CubeSpace in Portland, OR. If you’re in town and interested in learning more, by all means, come and join us!
Startupalooza is another fantastic event from Legion of Tech, a group of technologists [...]

Google’s Eric Schmidt presented the closing keynote at the HIMSS conference this week where more details about their latest initiative, Google Health, emerged. Marissa Mayer gave a good overview but the specific details are really lacking here. I’d like to talk a little about each of these in turn:
Privacy & Security
When it comes [...]

Google announced their long-awaited health record system yesterday. Reaction was certainly mixed but the common theme emerging from the blogosphere was: “How are we going to protect this valuable information?” From the release:

Each health profile, including information about prescriptions, allergies and medical histories, will be protected by a password that’s also required to [...]

From a security perspective knowing that you are human is invaluable. In the real world, you protect your house by installing a security system that monitors human motion and you install deadbolts that stop people from opening the door. Now imagine how you would protect your home if the attacker was [...]

I spend a lot of my time thinking about Vidoop’s role in finding out what the Internet will look like when everyone has corporate grade authentication. From day one we have envisioned our core application working in conjunction with third party strong authentication systems like hardware tokens. We built our own SMS and [...]

Topics: Whitelisting in an OpenID world, myVidoop…it rhymes with _____.

Well, maybe not the sun, but certainly security, which is, after all, why we’re all here. Here at Vidoop we try to put personal security in the hands of the user, particularly when it comes to passwords, which can be stored either locally on your own computer or remotely with myVidoop. This choice offers a [...]

OpenID may be the internet’s best kept secret, surprising given the decentralized single login system’s promises of greater security and convenience, two of the most powerful forces driving the growth of our virtual economy. Still, even with an increased rate of adoption of OpenID by more large and influential organizations than ever before, the bulk [...]

First, let’s define corporate grade authentication. This type of authentication typically employs devices such as hardware tokens (key fobs), smart cards, encrypted USB devices, or some type of out of band authentication (think SMS code to your mobile phone), used to layer onto the typical username and password. This type of authentication is [...]