Michigan's DNA Shaped a Populist Security Start-Up

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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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