# Research

**Lock-In Week: four days, five engineers, and a swarm of coding agents**  
2026-09-10  
We cleared four days, cancelled every meeting, and gave five engineers unlimited agent credits. Volume got cheap immediately. Direction, shared context, integration and verification did not.

**Teaching Software to Log Into Any Website**  
2026-07-13  
How Checkpoint uses AI reconnaissance to build deterministic login flows, then replays them inside a trusted execution environment, with no AI near your credentials.

**We're Hiring**  
2026-03-02  
Multifactor is hiring. If you are a talented engineering leader or individual contributor who cares deeply about forging the future of authentication, authorization, and auditing for the agentic era, you should probably check out our open positions.

**Multifactor Versus Password Managers: Securing Capabilities, Not Credentials**  
2026-01-31  
Say goodbye to password managers and hello to Multifactor, the world’s first true Account Manager!

**Meet Multifactor: Putting Your Digital Life on Autopilot**  
2025-10-31  
A closer look at the platform designed to unify and secure your entire digital identity.

**Addressing the AAA Threat: AuthN, AuthZ, and Auditing for Agentic Applications**  
2025-09-08  
Multifactor’s platform and technology solves the “AAA threat” and enables new capabilities by allowing agentic applications to have secure access to users’ accounts.

**Introducing the AAA Threat: Secure Authentication, Authorization, and Auditing for Agentic Applications**  
2025-08-12  
Enterprises are deploying agentic applications faster than cyber security measures can keep up, leading to major high-profile security incidents exploiting agentic vulnerabilities.

**How to Choose Parameters for KDFs like Argon2, Bcrypt, Scrypt, PBKDF2, Balloon Hashing, & More (Part 2 of 2)**  
2025-08-01  
Explanation of our interactive tool and free API for selecting optimal parameters for hard KDFs like Argon2, Bcrypt, Scrypt, PBKDF2, and Balloon Hashing.

**Introducing Switchboard: Provably Secure, Flexible, and Efficient Authorization**  
2025-07-17  
Switchboard is Multifactor's secure, flexible, and efficient data authorization management solution that advances the current state of the art by cryptographically enforcing complex authorization policies.

**Introducing Checkpoint: A Better Way to Share Online Accounts**  
2025-07-07  
Checkpoint uses novel cryptographic techniques to enable easy revocable, non-repudiable, and fine-grained sharing of any online account resource.