Robinhood’s SERA Cuts Access Approval Time by 20%

Summary
Robinhood says its passkey-based SERA platform enables remote access approvals from managed and unmanaged devices without VPNs, cutting approval time by 20%. The company is expanding it for other internal uses.
Key points
- Robinhood says its previous laptop-bound approval process slowed incident response and development.
- SERA enables passkey-based approvals from managed and unmanaged devices without relying on VPNs.
- Robinhood reports that SERA cut access-approval time by 20% for developers and incident responders.
- Application security, cryptography, and infrastructure teams built the platform in four months and put it through design review, pentesting, and production-readiness review.
- Robinhood is exploring additional internal uses for SERA as an “Approval-as-a-Service” platform.
Article Details
- Event Type
- Robinhood developed and deployed a passkey-based remote access-approval platform.
- Impact
- Secure Enhanced Remote Approval (SERA) reduced approval time by 20% for developers and incident responders. It supports approvals from managed and unmanaged devices without VPNs, helping reduce delays in incident response and development.
