GLOVO

Operating in 25 countries at a current valuation of nearly +$ 1 billion , Glovo is one of Europe ’ s fastest growing startups . Based in Spain , Glovo delivers restaurant takeout orders , groceries , pharmacy , and other products to 4.3 million urban users . In the past year , Glovo more than doubled its employee count to more than 3000 .

When Alexander Antukh joined Glovo in August 2020 as its director of security , some employees used personal password managers while most used nothing at all . Weak passwords were frequent and people shared them among teams , often through the company ’ s messaging platforms .

“ Passwords were almost useless ,” said Antukh . “ Yes , there is a password but if everybody knows it , or you can easily find that in the password lists through brute force , then it ' s not very good protection .”

Solution : Bitwarden makes password management simple and consistent

Antukh was already a Bitwarden user prior to joining Glovo . He was especially drawn to the transparency and third-party security audits inherent in an open source solution .

At Glovo , Antukh made a pitch for Bitwarden . He touted the solution ’ s endto-end encryption and cross-platform accessibility that let users access Bitwarden from any device . He spoke of flexible integration capabilities that make it easy to add on tools such as two-factor

106 March 2022