Asignio

Asignio provides passwordless, phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication built around a dual-biometric factor: users draw a personal "sign" (a handwritten gesture combining shapes and/or characters) on a touch-enabled device while the system simultaneously captures facial-recognition and handwriting-dynamics data. The company’s pitch is that combining two biometric signals collected in a single motion makes each login attempt inherently harder to replay, phish, or deepfake than a single-factor biometric or a push-notification MFA prompt, since an attacker would need to forge both the handwriting dynamics and a live facial match simultaneously.

Founded in 2013 and based in Sedro-Woolley, Washington, Asignio has stayed a small, founder-led company rather than scaling through large venture rounds — public funding trackers put its total disclosed raise in the low single-digit millions. It positions the technology as an add-on layer for existing IAM platforms (the company cites integrations with Okta and Ping) rather than a full identity-platform replacement, aiming at use cases like account onboarding, step-up authentication, and account recovery where deepfake and phishing resistance matter most.

As a small, low-profile vendor, Asignio has limited independent validation beyond its own marketing and a handful of trade-press writeups; CISOs evaluating it should treat the phishing-resistance and anti-deepfake claims as vendor-asserted pending their own testing, though the underlying dual-biometric mechanism is a legitimate architectural approach also explored by larger identity vendors.