Secfense

Secfense is a Krakow, Poland-based identity and access security company, founded in 2018, built around a product it calls the User Access Security Broker (UASB). Rather than requiring an application to be modified or re-coded to support strong authentication, the UASB sits as a network-layer proxy between users and applications, learns existing authentication traffic patterns, and inserts an additional FIDO2/WebAuthn-based passwordless MFA layer in front of the login flow. That no-code integration model is the company’s central pitch: adding FIDO-grade authentication to a legacy or vendor-supplied application in days rather than the months a native SDK integration would typically take.

This matters most for large, authentication-fragmented organizations — banks, insurers, ministries — running dozens of internal and customer-facing applications, many of them old or third-party systems whose vendors won’t prioritize a FIDO integration. Secfense’s proxy approach lets a security team roll out strong authentication centrally without needing cooperation from every individual application owner or vendor.

The company’s clearest independent validation is a named enterprise deployment: BNP Paribas Bank Polska adopted Secfense to introduce FIDO-based MFA across its banking operations, and Poland’s Ministry of Infrastructure selected the UASB to support two-factor authentication — both are publicly confirmed, named customers rather than anonymized case studies. Secfense raised a $2 million seed round in 2022 from Tera VC, Presto Ventures, and RKKVC, along with a syndicate of individual angel investors.

At roughly 16 employees, Secfense is a small company relative to the identity giants (Okta, Ping Identity, Microsoft Entra) it indirectly competes with; its realistic niche is organizations that need to retrofit strong, phishing-resistant authentication onto systems those larger identity platforms can’t easily reach without native integration work, particularly in regulated European markets like banking and government.