Passwords Must Be Eliminated
A hall-of-fame cryptographer renowned for his work developing the SSL protocol when he was chief scientist at Netscape in the 1990s, Taher Elgamal now serves as CTO, Security, at Salesforce. With that being said, he has some strong feelings about our continued dependency on passwords to access sensitive systems. "Passwords must be eliminated," he says, and in this exclusive session he explains not just why, but how. Elgamal also discusses:
- The state of the art re: passwordless authentication
- Concerns about the evolving threat landscape
- CISO priorities as we head into 2022
