Why payment orchestration is important and the two primary ways of implementing it.

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We raised $25 million to build the clearinghouse for sensitive data

Making sensitive data in plaintext a thing of the past.

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Shane Curran

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Shifting the norm on how OTAs work with card data

OTAs can now work with card data and minimize PCI scope

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New Distribution Capability

A brief look at what NDC is and what came before

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Brody Klapko

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ASV Scans: What they are, when you need them, and how they work

Learn what ASV scans are, when you need them for PCI compliance, and how Evervault simplifies the process with a modern, user-friendly solution.

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Shane Curran

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Evaluating network tokens: Webinar Q&A

Network tokenization promises better authorization rates, reduced fraud, and enhanced security, but implementing it comes with real questions.

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Shane Curran

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Evaluating Network Tokens: Are They Worth It?

If you're responsible for payments infrastructure, you've probably heard conflicting advice about network tokens. Some vendors promise dramatic authorization rate improvements, while others downplay the benefits entirely.

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Shane Curran

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Beyond payment tokenization: Why developers are choosing Evervault's encryption-first approach

How Evervault’s dual-custody encryption model eliminates the fundamental limitations of traditional tokenization for PCI compliance

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Shane Curran

Visa's VAMP Program: Why 3D-Secure is now essential for PSPs
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Visa’s VAMP Program: Why 3D-Secure is now essential for PSPs

Visa's 2025 Acquirer Monitoring Program (VAMP) represents one of the most significant changes to payment fraud monitoring in over a decade.

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Mastering 3D-Secure: Minimizing chargebacks and fraud rates for payment gateways, PSPs and PayFacs

If you're a payment service provider working with high-risk merchants, April 1st, 2025 marked the beginning of a big change in how Visa calculates fraud rates.

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Shane Curran

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3D-Secure for high-risk payments: Webinar Q&A

During our 3D-Secure for high-risk payments webinar, attendees asked many insightful questions. To ensure everyone benefits from the discussion, we've compiled some key questions with our answers below.

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Shane Curran

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Encryption in payments: Evervault encryption vs. traditional encryption

Compare traditional encryption vs Evervault for payment security. Explore key management, PCI compliance, and data protection approaches for secure card processing.

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Shane Curran

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Introducing Evervault Page Protection: Securing payment pages from JavaScript attacks

Secure your payment pages against script and security header attacks while complying with PCI DSS 4.0 requirements, 6.4.3, and 11.6.1.

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Shane Curran

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How secure payment flows can increase auth rates

Every declined payment is a missed opportunity. Whether it’s a failed credit or debit card transaction or a false fraudulent transaction flag, each breakdown in the payment authorization process costs you revenue—and chips away at customer satisfaction.

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Shane Curran

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Everything you need to know about 3D Secure in the US

For online merchants in the US, the modern version of 3D Secure offers a powerful upgrade to payment security.

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Shane Curran

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Everything you need to know about 3D Secure in Japan

Online fraud is rising in Japan, and new updates to the country’s Credit Card Security Guidelines mean businesses can no longer afford to delay stronger protections.

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Network tokens vs. traditional card tokenization

The key differences between network tokens and tokenization, including strengths and challenges alongside merchants and vendors.

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Shane Curran

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PCI Script Security and 6.4.3 and 11.6.1 Compliance: Webinar Q&A

During our Script Security webinar, we had some great audience questions pop up during the presentation. Here are the answers.

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How to maintain up-to-date card authorization

Up-to-date card authorization is vital for modern businesses, learn strategies to maintain customer trust and scale operations effectively.

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Shane Curran

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Five tactical methods to implement to improve card authorization rates in 2025

As we head into 2025, here are five practical ways to boost your card authorization success rates.

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Shane Curran

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Understanding Visa’s EMV 3D Secure program

EMV 3D-Secure represents a crucial advancement in online payment security, balancing robust fraud prevention with optimal user experience. This blog is for merchants considering implementing 3DS.

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How to Implement & Optimize 3D-Secure: Webinar Q&A

During our How to Implement & Optimize 3D-Secure webinar, we received a lot of insightful questions from the audience. To make sure everyone benefits from the discussion, we’ve compiled the top questions along with our answers below.

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Shane Curran

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A Practical Guide to Implement and Optimize 3D Secure

Understanding the technical fundamentals behind 3DS can guide better decisions about authentication flows, fraud prevention measures, and user experience optimization.

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Shane Curran

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Network Tokens 101: Webinar Q&A

During our Network Tokens webinar, we had some great audience questions pop up during the presentation. Here are the answers.

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Shane Curran

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How to Implement Card Tokenization in 2025: A Comprehensive Guide

Implementing card tokenization in 2025 is straightforward and versatile. It also remains a crucial step to enhance payment security and streamline compliance efforts.

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Encryption Requirements for PCI Compliance in 2025

Complete guide to implementing encryption for PCI Compliance in 2025. Understand must-haves and some practical strategies to maintain compliance.

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Navigating VISA Chargebacks in 2025

Understanding the VISA chargeback rules and implementing an effective chargeback management strategy is essential for any merchant in 2025.

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How to implement 3D-Secure authentication in 2025

The most notable considerations for implementing 3D-Secure authentication in 2025

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What are Network Tokens and how do they work?

Get an understanding of what network tokens are, how they differ from traditional tokenization, and what you should think about when implementing them.

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Shane Curran

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Multi-Payment Processors and Evervault

Multi-payment processor systems integrate multiple payment providers to handle transactions. Use Multi-psp to boost coverage to local populations and minimizes net transaction fees.

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Mathew Pregasen

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What's new with Evervault?

We've launched new payment extensions, 3D-Secure, account updater, and made many enhancements to our core product!

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Did DORA’s last update create an encryption loophole?

Unravel DORA’s encryption mandates and explore the evolving standards to ensure your company meets compliance by the 2025 deadline

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What is 3D-Secure and How Do You Implement It?

Learn what 3D-Secure is, its pros and cons, and how you can implement it effectively

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Shane Curran

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Introducing Evervault 3D-Secure – refreshingly modular and performant

Flexible and universal API for 3DS authentication that works independently of your payment processor.

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Shane Curran

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Introducing Evervault's New Payments Security Platform

Today we’re launching our modular payments security platform, to give our customers greater flexibility and control over their payments stack.

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Shane Curran

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The Business Case for Reducing PCI DSS Scope

A Business Guide to Simplifying Security

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How we built Enclaves: Resolving clock drift in Nitro Enclaves

Synchronizing the Unsynchronized

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Hannah Neary

Hannah Neary

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The power and limits of confidential computing

A deep dive into how enclaves work

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Mathew Pregasen

Mathew Pregasen

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How we built Enclaves: Routing Traffic with Consul

Building Enclaves presented various technical challenges, dig into our roadblocks with service discovery and how we’ve used Consul to fix it.

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Dónal Tuohy

Dónal Tuohy

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How we built Enclaves: Egress Networking

How we built our Enclaves primitive, we dig into our redesign of Enclaves egress networking with iptables.

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Hannah Neary

Hannah Neary

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Building a Key Sharing Product Using Enclaves

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David Nugent

David Nugent

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How we got the most out of PCI DSS v4

How Evervault combined the best of defined and customized validation to achieve PCI DSS v4

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Product Update January '24

Check out what's new in the Evervault product this month!

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The Evervault Team

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Introducing Confidential Computing, powered by Evervault Enclaves

Accelerating a new era of data security by making confidential computing incredibly easy.

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Shane Curran

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Decrypt PCI DSS 4.0 Special with John Hetherton

How moving to v4.0 presents an opportunity to rethink security.

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The Evervault Team

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The unique challenge of upgrading to PCI DSS v4.0

There are two ways to tackle the latest PCI standard—a lift-and-shift approach and a ground-up reevaluation.

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Product Update — 2023 Roundup

Our product highlights from the year.

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The Evervault Team

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A security paradigm for 2024: ATAF—Access To, Access From

By sorting tactics into “protection before” and “protection after”, security teams can build more robust programs.

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Mathew Pregasen

Mathew Pregasen

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Product Update November ‘23

Check out what's new at Evervault product this month.

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The Evervault Team

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Data Policies: fine-grained access control for encrypted data

Introducing Data Policies, Evervault’s newest platform feature. Set clear rules that dictate how and when encrypted data can be decrypted.

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The Evervault Team

The Evervault Team

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Decrypt with Evervault: Richard Rodger from Voxgig

His journey from founding a leading Node.js company to DevRel company Voxgig

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The Evervault Team

The Evervault Team

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Decrypt with Evervault: Thomas Kinsella from Tines

How to think through protecting your company’s most important assets

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The Evervault Team

The Evervault Team

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Product Update October '23

Check out what's new within the Evervault product this month.

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The Evervault Team

The Evervault Team

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Threat Models: Malicious Admin

Modeling and mitigations for dealing with a malicious internal admin

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Decrypt with Evervault: Kyle Mistele from Zelus

Ensuring complete web3 wallet security through secure enclaves and encryption

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The Evervault Team

The Evervault Team

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The Story and Math of Differential Cryptanalysis

The Hidden History and Politics of Encryption Algorithms

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David Nugent

David Nugent

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Encryption at Rest has become a buzzword.

Companies often brag about encryption-at-rest? Is that really worth bragging about?

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Mathew Pregasen

Mathew Pregasen

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Decrypt with Evervault: Damir Mehic from heyData

Empowering developers about security and privacy so they can implement measures from the start

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The Evervault Team

The Evervault Team

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Threat Models: External Network Attack

Modeling and Mitigations of an External Attack.

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Product Update September '23

What's new this month? Card Reveal, revamped PCI compliance and PII encryption solutions, and enhancements to Cages.

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The Evervault Team

The Evervault Team

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Decrypt with Evervault: Paul Conroy from Square1

How empathy for the customer can supercharge your development

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The Evervault Team

The Evervault Team

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Threat Models: Accidental Cloud Misconfiguration

Third in our thread model series, we cover mastering cloud security.

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Decrypt with Evervault: Tamás Henning From Circle

“If you don't do security right, you can't have privacy.”

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The Evervault Team

The Evervault Team

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Threat Models: Supply Chain Attack

Modeling and Mitigations of Supply Chain Threats

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Decrypt Development with Ines Kenova from nmible

From a co-founder turned engineer who is a self-described “security freak”

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The Evervault Team

The Evervault Team

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Multi-party computation is (sort of) changing the game

Multi-party computing has a lot of potential. Unfortunately, it’s rarely worth the hassle.

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Mathew Pregasen

Mathew Pregasen

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Product Update August ‘23

AI Privacy, Relay Redaction, and Decrypt API -- check out these and many more updates from this month

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The Evervault Team

The Evervault Team

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Threat Models: Malicious Insider

How to model system threats within a sample cloud-based stack, and a deep dive into mitigations for a potential malicious insider threat.

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Decrypt Security at Vanta with Rob Picard

Establishing guardrails rather than gates, distinguishing signal from noise, and how security is about partnership.

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The Evervault Team

The Evervault Team

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The case for encryption by proxy

Encryption by proxy - intercept and encrypt data during the network request with a relay server.

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Shane Curran

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Decrypt with Evervault: Meet your hosts

In the first episode of Decrypt, get to know your two hosts, Shane Curran and Liz Moy, and learn why they've started his podacst.

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Liz Moy

Liz Moy

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Product Update July ‘23

HIPAA compliance, Mobile SDKs, FTUX and more! Our team has been hard at work, see what’s new in the Evervault world.

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The Evervault Team

The Evervault Team

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Understanding Quantum Secrecy

A brief primer on quantum cryptography and quantum cryptanalysis

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Declain Thomas

Declain Thomas

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Federated learning works like magic. Unfortunately, people don't really trust magic.

While federated learning is a big upgrade from centralized learning, it brings its own set of challenges.

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Mathew Pregasen

Mathew Pregasen

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Securing Data at Rest & Using Data Securely

Learn how you can secure data that’s actively being changed or updated (in use) and data that you’re keeping in storage, like in a database or CDN (at rest).

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Shedrack Akintayo

Shedrack Akintayo

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Case Study: Navigating ePHI data security without compromising on product

Navigating ePHI data security doesn’t have to be a headache. Learn how one startup approached protecting their customer data.

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Product Update June ‘23

Checkout last month’s feature updates, user experience improvements and content.

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The Evervault Team

The Evervault Team

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How Integrations Ushered in a New Era of Security Chaos

An app’s security is often only as strong as its least locked-down integration.

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Mathew Pregasen

Mathew Pregasen

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Code Attestation Needs to be Easier

Explaining code attestation, how it enhances data security, and why it needs to be easier.

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David Nugent

David Nugent

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5 Ways Securing Customer Data Impacts Your Bottom Line

Safeguarding your Sensitive Data could Save Your Business Millions.

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'Shifting Left': It’s Time to Put Encryption at the Heart of Your DevSecOps Strategy

The Crucial Role of Encryption in the 'Shift Left' Paradigm

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Building and Scaling Engineer to Engineer Support

Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Developer Support and Product Integration in a Remote World

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Eoin Boylan

Eoin Boylan

Optimizing our Encryption Engine
Optimizing our Encryption Engine

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Optimizing our Encryption Engine

Unlocking E3's Full Potential

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David Nugent

David Nugent

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Product Update May ‘23

Deep dive into our recent product launches, feature updates, and developer demos.

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The Evervault Team

The Evervault Team

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Why Enclaves Exist

From von Neumann to Secure Enclaves

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Declain Thomas

Declain Thomas

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How We Built Cages: Wrapping Up

Overcoming Our Trust Issues

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Liam Farrelly

Liam Farrelly

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Mastering API Key Safety and Management

Best Practices to Protect Your API Keys

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Shedrack Akintayo

Shedrack Akintayo

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How We Built Cages: Networking for Secure Enclaves

Building networking from scratch in an enclave environment

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Hannah Neary

Hannah Neary

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5 Common Mistakes with Encryption at Rest

Learn the basics of encryption at rest and common mistakes to avoid when implementing encryption.

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Liz Moy

Liz Moy

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How We Built Cages: Cage Provisioning

Providing TLS certificate provisioning and secrets management out of the box

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Hannah Neary

Hannah Neary

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Product Update April ‘23

Checkout last month’s product launches, feature updates, and developer demos.

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The Evervault Team

The Evervault Team

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How We Built Cages: Deploying to an Enclave

The architecture of a Cage and a step-by-step look at what happens behind the scenes during a Cage deployment.

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Dónal Tuohy

Dónal Tuohy

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Deep dive on fully homomorphic encryption: what is it and what makes it different?

Demystifying Fully Homomorphic Encryption

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Shedrack Akintayo

Shedrack Akintayo

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How We Built Cages: Building Enclaves Easily

How Cage builds preserve the trust model of Enclaves and technical challenges we faced.

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David Nugent

David Nugent

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SHA-1 gets SHAttered

Theoretical attacks on SHA-1 have become practical. SHA-1 should be deprecated everywhere.

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Declain Thomas

Declain Thomas

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How Evervault and Stripe Work Together

Ensuring PCI Compliance when collecting payment data with Evervault

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Liz Moy

Liz Moy

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Why We Built Cages: Our Take on Secure Enclaves

Evervault’s take on Secure Enclaves – the importance of accessibility and ease of use when protecting sensitive data.

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David Nugent

David Nugent

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Product Update March ‘23

Checkout last month’s product launches, feature updates, and developer demos.

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The Evervault Team

The Evervault Team

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What is a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE)?

Understanding how they work and why they matter.

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Liam Farrelly

Liam Farrelly

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Phone Phreaks: the proto-hackers

Phone phreaking was a precursor to hacking that paved the way for Apple Inc.

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Ben Butler

Ben Butler

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Navigating the fallout of your ePHI data breach?

A quick guide to better understanding HIPAA compliance, obligations and requirements to ePHI breach reporting, and the best safeguards for avoiding data breach fallout.

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What Is Sensitive Data? Definition, Types, & Protection

Not sure what is sensitive data and what isn’t? Learn about all the different types of sensitive data and how to protect it when building applications.

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Stibitz: The forgotten father of the modern digital computer

Not to mention: excess-3 code, floating decimal arithmetic, self-checking circuits, jump program instructions, taped programs, and 'table-hunting' sub-computers.

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Ben Butler

Ben Butler

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Understanding the Australia Privacy Act in 2023

Learn about recent changes to the Australia Privacy Act and how you can stay compliant and protect your customer’s data in 2023.

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A Guide to Good DX: Unwrapping the Improvements

Learn about the DX improvements we’ve made to our website and application and how these changes will make developers’ lives easier.

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Eoin Power-Moran

Eoin Power-Moran

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A Guide to Good DX: Improving Your Website

The Principles of Good Website Design

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Eoin Power-Moran

Eoin Power-Moran

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Best Practices for Preparing Your Data for Encryption

A seven-step guide to building your encryption architecture, deciding what data to encrypt and how to think about securing it.

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A Guide to Good DX: Developer Docs

Taking your developer docs to the next level.

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Eoin Power-Moran

Eoin Power-Moran

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A Guide to Good DX: Introducing DXmas

It’s the most wonderful time of the year.

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Eoin Power-Moran

Eoin Power-Moran

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PCI DSS for Developers

Everything you need to know about PCI compliance.

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The Cryptography Lag

Why have production systems fallen behind academic cryptography?

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The Evervault Team

The Evervault Team

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This Code Encrypts Itself

The encryption equivalent of a quine

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David Nugent

David Nugent

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Shamir's Secret Sharing: Explanation and Visualization

Gain a better understanding of Shamir’s Secret Sharing scheme and its importance with visualization examples from an Evervault engineer.

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David Nugent

David Nugent

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String Encryption: How to Encrypt a String in 5 Minutes

Encrypting your first string with Evervault

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Shane Curran

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How to Build an App with Field Level Encryption

Learn how to use our invisible encryption proxy to automatically intercept and encrypt sensitive fields with field level encryption.

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Michael Lennon

Michael Lennon

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Avoid Zero-Day Vulnerability With Day Zero Security

Combating Zero Day Exploits (and data breaches in general) by integrating security from Day Zero.

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Shane Curran

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Outbound Relay Response Encryption: An Explainer

Using response encryption with Outbound Relay improves the process of querying third parties securely.

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Chinaza

Chinaza

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Secured by Evervault

Show your users how you protect their sensitive data. Secured by Evervault are hosted pages that confirm a team’s commitment to data security by summarising their encryption architecture.

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Nev Flynn

Nev Flynn

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How we built Relay

Evervault is encryption infrastructure for developers. Relay is our latest product to make integrating encryption as easy as possible. This post is about how we built Relay.

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Liam Farrelly

Liam Farrelly

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Rebranding Evervault

Announcing Evervault's 2022 rebrand.

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Nev Flynn

Nev Flynn

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Announcing PCI DSS compliance

Learn more about how our customers — like Treecard — are using Evervault to reduce their PCI DSS scope to the simplest method of validation.

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The Evervault Team

The Evervault Team

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Treecard: The wooden debit card that plants trees

How Evervault is helping its first PCI DSS customer to protect cardholder data.

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The Evervault Team

The Evervault Team

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Announcing HIPAA and SOC 2 compliance

We’re excited to announce that Evervault has achieved compliance with HIPAA and SOC 2 Type II.

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The Evervault Team

The Evervault Team

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Announcing the first companies encrypting with Evervault

We’re proud that early adopters have chosen to build their apps and services with Evervault.

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The Evervault Team

The Evervault Team

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Manna: Building the drone delivery network of the future

How Evervault is helping Manna encrypt the data powering their drone delivery network.

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The Evervault Team

The Evervault Team

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Okra: Building Africa’s Financial Data Network

By building with Evervault, Okra is making sure that Africa’s financial data network is encrypted, safe, and secure.

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The Evervault Team

The Evervault Team

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Vital: The simplest API for collecting health data

How Evervault is helping Vital encrypt health data from wearable devices and at-home test kits.

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The Evervault Team

The Evervault Team

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Encrypting the web

Defining our mission at Evervault.

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Shane Curran

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The Encryption Manifesto

Eight principles for the encrypted web.

By

Shane Curran

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How we built the Evervault Encryption Engine (E3)

Evervault is encryption infrastructure for developers. At the core of this infrastructure is E3, the Evervault Encryption Engine. This post is about how we built E3.

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Shane Curran

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Evervault announces $16.4M Series A led by Index Ventures

Evervault today announced its $16.4 million Series A round led by Index Ventures, with participation from existing partners Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, and Frontline.

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The Evervault Team

The Evervault Team

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Evervault announces $3.2M seed led by Sequoia

Evervault today announced its $3.2 million seed round led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Frontline, and SV Angel

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The Evervault Team

The Evervault Team

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