Slavik Markovich

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The money came from Lightspeed Venture Partners and GGV Capital with additional funds contributed by Dell Technologies Capital, TechAviv, J Ventures, Cerca, Unusual Ventures, Silicon Valley CISO Investments and individual investors CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz and Microsoft chairman John W. Thompson. It’ll be used, Descope co-founder and CEO Slavik Markovich says, to grow Descope’s product capabilities, invest in research and support open source initiatives around authentication, authorization and user management. [...] Descope was founded last April by the members of the core team that built the security operations platform Demisto, which Palo Alto Networks acquired in March 2019. While at Demisto, the team says that they experienced the pain of building authentication and user management functionality — including password management, single sign-on, tenant management and roles and permissions — firsthand. It turned into a multiyear investment, Markovich says — not to mention a massive time sink. “With Descope, the team’s vision is to ‘descope’ (hence the name) authentication and user management from every app developer’s daily work, so that they can focus on business-critical initiatives without worrying about building, updating and maintaining authentication,” Markovich said. [...] “The Descope platform helps developers add authentication, user management and authorization capabilities to their business-to-consumer and business-to-business apps with just a few lines of co