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Thi Nguyen-Huu
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Thi is the President and CEO of WinMagic, which he founded in 1997, with a vision to create encryption solutions that are secure, sophisticated yet easy-to-use for enterprises. Today this vision has evolved to Intelligent Management for Everything Encryption. When he is not busy running and growing the company, Thi is sport enthusiastic and thus always competitive. His one concession to constant competitiveness is leading a weekly Integral Taichi CK10 class at work, which provides relaxation and harmony to his hard working WinMagicians. Thi writes from a position of constant leadership and innovation; having two past successful ventures, his knowledge and experience will offer interesting insights within the security industry.
MFA and Zero-Trust Misconceptions Prevent Effective Solutions

MFA and Zero-Trust Misconceptions Prevent Effective Solutions

The WinMagic team believes we can revolutionize the cybersecurity of the world. Our latest authentication solution, MagicEndpoint, is ready to deliver the most secure authentication with the best user experience. Incredible? Unbelievable? Yes. Not because we can do magic, but because we recognized some misconceptions that prevented previous solutions from being effective. What are these…
new passwordless authentication

A more secure “client” for passwordless authentication

In this article, I’ll introduce a new passwordless authentication thought process: an entirely new “entity” that advanced passwordless solutions should use to achieve maximum security for businesses. If you’ve followed my past blogs, you might have noticed that I’ve addressed how using multi-device FIDO key authentication weakens FIDO security. The National Institute of Standards and…
The "Self-driving" endpoint frees users from Authentication to online services

The “Self-driving” endpoint frees users from Authentication to online services

Cybersecurity is top of mind for IT users. Among all the participants in the authentication chain – networks, applications, servers, endpoints, and users – users seem to be the weakest link, having caused account takeover, which cost organizations millions of dollars. Businesses spend on the helpdesk, password reset, password managers, MFA, and IdP/IAM to mitigate…
I like passwords

I LIKE PASSWORDS

Like you, I want freedom, I want control of my life… and I like passwords. They give me the freedom to use what only I know, independent of what I am or what I have. I can change my password often, and to the extent that no one can guess what I use as my…
Solutions for the SolarWinds Attackers

Proposing Solutions for the SolarWinds Attackers’ MFA Bypass (Part 2)

In our previous article in this series, we highlighted a very serious threat to networks of all kinds: The hackers presumed to be behind the large-scale breach of SolarWinds’ Orion platform have also been linked to an attack that compromised a multi-factor authentication system. By gaining read access to  the MFA server, it’s possible for…
Can we prevent the SolarWinds attacks’ associated MFA bypass?

Can the SolarWinds’ MFA bypass attacks be prevented?

The SolarWinds attack has been in the news a lot lately. In short, bad actors managed to inject an update to the SolarWinds Orion platform with malware, compromising the popular network software. Since Orion runs on thousands of internal networks worldwide, attackers potentially gained privileged access to countless servers. While SolarWinds has since scrubbed the…

WinMagic – our vision for better data security in a complex world.

It has been over 21 years since I founded WinMagic and started working on SecureDoc, a simple but sophisticated full disk encryption product.   Over the years I have learned a lot and developed insights and opinions regarding the state of data security and the role encryption should play in it.   Of course these insights and…