https://www.barrons.com/articles/how-michigans-dna-shaped-populist-start-up-duo-security-51553084081
By Mary Childs
Barron's
March 20, 2019
Dug Song had worked at three security companies and he was increasingly sure
the industry was failing people.
As cybersecurity became "the biggest geopolitical problem of our time," he
says, companies were prioritizing other companies, leaving regular people
behind, coping with old clunky systems and a "punishing" user experience. Just
when it mattered most:
"In an era where governments can't keep their secrets, nobody's safe," he tells
Barron’s. "Frankly I've been very disillusioned with a lot of the
dynamics...They were still shipping products that were ineffective, hopelessly
complicated, and servicing one end of the market, arguably security just for
the 1%."
"We all had a greater responsibility to help each other -- and I just didn't
see the industry rising to the occasion."
So Song, and fellow hacker Jon Oberheide, set about creating a way to make
security easier, more efficient, more accessible for everyone -- democratized.
In 2010 they founded Duo Security, to provide cloud-based two-factor
authentication services.
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