Adaptive Authentication or How to Make 2FA Convenient for Users
Any of us is interested in protecting confidential data from becoming the public domain on the web. Especially from people who are looking for such information for fraudulent purposes. The effective methods to avoid the invasion of online privacy are already known. And one of the most accessible ways is protecting access to your accounts with two-factor authentication. But… unfortunately, people don’t always use this...
How to Enable Protectimus Self-Service Portal
The Protectimus two-factor authentication service and on-premise platform offer a self-service feature that allows users to independently perform a number of actions related to issuing and managing their OTP tokens and their own data. The system administrator determines which actions are available to users. The list of possible actions includes: registration of new tokens;registration of existing tokens;re-assigning the...
Securing VPN with Two-Factor Authentication
VPN, or virtual private network, is a popular and proven security tool used by companies across the globe to protect remote access to their corporate networks, especially today when almost every company switched to remote work, at least in part. VPN allows the creation of an encrypted link between a user and the company’s private server. And while this secures the corporate infrastructure from the direct attacks of malicious agents,...
New Programmable TOTP token Protectimus Flex
Listen to this article You asked, and we delivered – the new programmable TOTP token Protectimus Flex in a key fob format is already here! Unlike our other popular programmable hardware token Protectimus Slim NFC, the new Protectimus Flex TOTP token comes in the form of a key fob. This makes our latest two-factor authentication hardware token more comfortable to use, and more durable. The security token can easily be fastened to...
6 MFA Myths You Still Believe
MFA or multi-factor authentication by definition is a technology that limits access to a user account unless the user presents two or more pieces of evidence that prove that they are who they claim to be, moreover, the evidence must be of different natures: something they know, something they have or something they are. Overall, the process is regarded as helpful, as it is a solution to many security threats including phishing, brute...
How to Add Two-Factor Authentication to Outlook Web App (OWA)
If you read this article, you probably know the answer to the “what is OWA” question. But just in case — OWA Outlook is a browser email client to access Microsoft Outlook without any on-premises installations for Exchange 2013, Exchange 2010 users. For Microsoft Outlook update for Microsoft Exchange 2016 it was rebranded as “Outlook on the web”. OWA Outlook online provides access not only to email, but to other personal information...